Abstract: A semiconductor manufacturing automation system for automatically manufacturing a plurality of semiconductor products by using a plurality of tools is provided. The system comprises a database, a receiver module, a data retriever and a data loading module. The database stores a plurality of manufacturing recipes with respect to the semiconductor products respectively. Each of the manufacturing recipes records at least one of the tools for manufacturing the corresponding semiconductor product and a plurality of parameters for controlling each of the tools for manufacturing the corresponding semiconductor product. The receiver module is used for receiving a request for manufacturing one of the semiconductor products. The data retriever is used for retrieving one of the recipes from the database according to the request. The data loading module is used for automatically loading the retrieved recipe to the corresponding tools.

Abstract: A method, apparatus, and computer instructions are provided for storage provisioning automation in a data center. A storage manager is provided in the present invention to facilitate end-to-end deployment of storage resources for a server in the data center. The storage manager includes functionalities of a volume manager, file system, and physical volumes. In addition, a hierarchical structure is provided by the present invention to specify configuration data for a volume container. The hierarchical structure includes volume container settings, which includes physical volume settings and logical volume settings linked through data partition settings. For SAN volumes, storage multipath settings and data path settings are included in the structure. File system settings and mounting settings are also included to mount a file system once it is created.

Abstract: A method and system for implementing an electronic frame data management system for semiconductor manufacturing automation including the following steps: data is transferred and stored into a first database, product recipe status of the mask-making data is inspected using a double check UI, the mask-making data via a web page is presented without manual searching, the web page having a desired selection, that is automatically obtained and displayed, is presented, queried results to send out directly is obtained and query capabilities are provided, a product recipe data in an output document format is provided, the data is replicated and stored at the first database to a second database configured at a server, historical record of the user is searched remotely, layer-by-layer accuracy verifications of the input process settings is performed, and only the latest information for the product recipe data is ensured for presentation.

Abstract: A method, apparatus, and computer instructions are provided for storage provisioning automation in a data center. A storage manager is provided in the present invention to facilitate end-to-end deployment of storage resources for a server in the data center. The storage manager includes functionalities of a volume manager, file system, and physical volumes. In addition, a hierarchical structure is provided by the present invention to specify configuration data for a volume container. The hierarchical structure includes volume container settings, which includes physical volume settings and logical volume settings linked through data partition settings. For SAN volumes, storage multipath settings and data path settings are included in the structure. File system settings and mounting settings are also included to mount a file system once it is created.

Abstract: A method, apparatus, and computer instructions are provided for storage provisioning automation in a data center. A storage manager is provided in the present invention to facilitate end-to-end deployment of storage resources for a server in the data center. The storage manager includes functionalities of a volume manager, file system, and physical volumes. In addition, a hierarchical structure is provided by the present invention to specify configuration data for a volume container. The hierarchical structure includes volume container settings, which includes physical volume settings and logical volume settings linked through data partition settings. For SAN volumes, storage multipath settings and data path settings are included in the structure. File system settings and mounting settings are also included to mount a file system once it is created.

Abstract: There is provided a method, apparatus and program product for managing shared or reusable storage volumes in a data processing system. A storage allocation pool having a plurality of storage volumes to be shared or reused by a plurality of authorized machines is created. Access to the plurality of storage volumes in the storage allocation pool by a machine of the plurality of authorized machines is enabled during a storage provisioning period and is disabled following storage de-provisioning. By providing the storage volumes in a storage allocation pool, all storage volumes in the pool can be used by a plurality of machines, and data on the storage volumes will persist even if no machine is accessing the storage volumes.

Abstract: A method, apparatus, and computer instructions are provided for storage provisioning automation in a data center. A storage manager is provided in the present invention to facilitate end-to-end deployment of storage resources for a server in the data center. The storage manager includes functionalities of a volume manager, file system, and physical volumes. In addition, a hierarchical structure is provided by the present invention to specify configuration data for a volume container. The hierarchical structure includes volume container settings, which includes physical volume settings and logical volume settings linked through data partition settings. For SAN volumes, storage multipath settings and data path settings are included in the structure. File system settings and mounting settings are also included to mount a file system once it is created.