摘要:
The present invention is a process in which broadcasters can supplement existing multimedia streams such as video and audio with additional multimedia streams in a coordinated and integrated way, allowing users, after reception of the broadcast stream, to select which substream to use, without requiring an upstream channel to communicate this user preference back to the server or any additional bandwidth to broadcast these additional streams.
摘要:
The present invention is a process in which broadcasters can supplement existing multimedia streams such as video and audio with additional multimedia streams in a coordinated and integrated way, allowing users, after reception of the broadcast stream, to select which sub-stream to use, without requiring an upstream channel to communicate this user preference back to the server or any additional bandwidth to broadcast these additional streams.
摘要:
A memoryless communications adapter for communicating between the nodes of a distributed parallel computer network, each node including a non-shared program memory coupled to the memoryless communications adapter which interfaces the network. An embodiment of the present invention advantageously provides an adapter that can manipulate queues and matching tables efficiently in hardware and provide a high-level object view of queues and matching in the context of communication between nodes. Preferably, the Queue manipulation logic, Match Table manipulation logic and the Sequence Table manipulation logic are implemented in the adapter hardware which does not keep any state or resources in it that depend on the size of the system or the number of queues/tables instantiated. The actual states of these objects may be kept in the program memory, so that the adapter hardware is memoryless.
摘要:
A method, information processing system, and computer readable medium for efficiently distributing a computer system's main memory among applications running in that operating system instance. More specifically, threshold values used by a page replacement algorithm of the virtual memory manager are automatically tuned in response to the load on the memory of a computer system. One such threshold value is the lower threshold of free memory which is changed as a function of the load on the memory. For example, such a load might be represented as the number of threads that were added to a waiting queue during a defined interval of time divided by the number of clock tics in that interval. This representation is known as the thread wait rate. This rate is then compared to a target rate to determine if the lower threshold value should be changed. When the free memory space falls below the lower threshold, a page replacement daemon is used to page out memory to make more memory space available.
摘要:
A method, system and computer program product are disclosed for maintaining data coherence, for use in a multi-node processing system where each of the nodes includes one or more components. In one embodiment, the method comprises establishing a data domain, assigning a group of the components to the data domain, sending a coherence message from a first component of the processing system to a second component of the processing system, and determining if that second component is assigned to the data domain. In this embodiment, if that second component is assigned to the data domain, the coherence message is transferred to all of the components assigned to the data domain to maintain data coherency among those components. In an embodiment, if that second component is assigned to the data domain, the first component is assigned to the data domain.
摘要:
A method and apparatus for creating a compressed trace for a program, wherein events are compressed separately to provide improved compression and tracing. A sequence of events for a program is selected, and a sequence of values is then determined for each of the selected events occurring during an execution of the program. Each sequence of values is then compressed to generate a compressed sequence of values for each event. These values are then ordered in accordance with information stored in selected events (such as for example, branch events), where the ordered values correspond to the trace.
摘要:
A method and structure for OS event notification, including a central processing unit (CPU) and a memory including instructions for an event notification mechanism for monitoring operating system events in an operating system (OS) being executed by the CPU. The OS includes a kernel having a plurality of kernel subcomponents that provide services to one or more applications executing in the OS in a user mode, using system calls to the kernel. The OS event notification mechanism is capable of monitoring events within the kernel, at a level below the user mode level. The OS event notification mechanism includes Application Program Interfaces (APIs) that are standard for the OS.
摘要:
A method and structure for notifying operating system events, includes standard filesystem interfaces provided for event consumers to use for one or more of registering for event notifications of a set of events, receiving an event notification when each event occurs, and getting details of events that have occurred.
摘要:
An information processing system for branch target prediction is disclosed. The information processing system includes a memory for storing entries, wherein each entry includes a plurality of target addresses representing a history of target addresses for a multi-target branch and logic for reading the memory and identifying a repeated pattern in a plurality of target addresses for a multi-target branch. The information processing system further includes logic for predicting a next target address for the multi-target branch based on the repeated pattern that was identified.
摘要:
A method and structure for OS event notification, including a central processing unit (CPU) and a memory including instructions for an event notification mechanism for monitoring operating system events in an operating system (OS) being executed by the CPU. The OS includes a kernel having a plurality of kernel subcomponents that provide services to one or more applications executing in the OS in a user mode, using system calls to the kernel. The OS event notification mechanism is capable of monitoring events within the kernel, at a level below the user mode level. The OS event notification mechanism includes Application Program Interfaces (APIs) that are standard for the OS.