Generic Configuration Scheme for Grid Computing Integration
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Solution Overview
Problem
In data centers, server clusters often inefficiently manage unpredictable workloads, leading to underutilization of resources due to heterogeneity in configuration syntax, semantics, storage types, and access methods, particularly in grid computing environments where legacy systems are integrated.
Innovation Solution
A generic configuration scheme is introduced to store and manage configuration element entries in a grid computer network, using a definition scheme that includes aggregated properties and configuration elements, with an intermediate layer acting as a proxy to access and customize application-specific data, allowing for consistent integration and dynamic adjustment of configurations across diverse sources.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a generic configuration scheme is introduced to integrate customization data from multiple sources, then adaptability and ease of operation are improved, but device complexity increases due to the need to manage heterogeneous configuration syntax, semantics, storage types, and access methods
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a generic configuration scheme as an intermediary layer between legacy systems and the grid computing environment. This scheme provides a unified interface that handles the complexity of heterogeneous configuration sources (different syntax, semantics, storage types, and access methods) while presenting a consistent configuration model to applications. The intermediary translates and integrates configurations from multiple legacy systems without requiring changes to the legacy systems themselves or the client software.
2Adaptability or versatility
If legacy systems are integrated into the grid computing environment, then adaptability is improved, but ease of operation deteriorates due to heterogeneity in configuration syntax, semantics, storage types, and access methods
Solution Approach 1:
The generic configuration scheme serves as a universal interface that can handle multiple types of configuration sources with different syntax, semantics, storage types, and access methods. It provides a single unified configuration model that works across all legacy systems, eliminating the need for system-specific configuration procedures and making the grid computing environment easier to operate while maintaining high adaptability to diverse legacy systems.
3Ease of operation
If configuration data is stored in a definition scheme with an intermediate layer, then ease of operation is improved through simplified access, but device complexity increases due to the additional layer of abstraction
Solution Approach 1:
The generic configuration scheme creates a copied or virtual representation of configuration data from multiple legacy systems in a unified definition scheme. This virtual copy allows applications to access configuration data through a simplified, consistent interface without directly interacting with the complex underlying storage mechanisms of various legacy systems. The intermediate layer manages the mapping between the virtual configuration model and the physical storage locations.
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AI summary
A system and a method includes storing one or more configuration element entries in a definition scheme on a computer system included in a grid computer network. The configuration element entry includes data used by a program included in the computer system in the grid computer network to locate and access application specific customization data associated with an application on the computer system. The system and method also includes accessing the entries in the definition scheme for the application such that the program accesses the customization data using the definition scheme and the configuration element entries.