Unified Computing Network Management via Recursive UTM Architecture
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current management systems for computing networks lack a unified architecture to efficiently model and manage the interplay between communications networks, computer servers, and storage systems, leading to fragmented management techniques that are not well-suited for complex or large-scale computing networks.
Innovation Solution
The approach represents a computing network as a recursive structure of Universal Turing Machines (UTMs), files, and communication networks, where UTMs and files serve as sources and sinks of information, and communication networks transfer information, enabling unified management through a single system by extending existing models like ITU-T Recommendation G.800 to incorporate UTM models of computing resources and files.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If separate management systems are used for communications networks, computer servers, and storage systems, then each system can be managed with specialized techniques, but the overall computing network becomes difficult to manage in a unified manner
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges previously separate management systems for communications networks, computer servers, and storage systems into a unified management system. This is achieved by creating a common information model that can represent all three types of systems and their interrelationships, allowing a single management interface to control the entire computing network rather than requiring separate management tools for each component type.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a universal management system that can handle multiple types of computing resources (networks, servers, storage) through a single interface. The common information model serves as a multi-functional framework that can represent diverse system types using consistent objects and relationships, enabling the management system to perform similar management functions across different resource types without requiring type-specific management logic.
2Productivity
If different architectures are used to model communications networks, computer servers, and storage systems, then each system can be optimized for its specific functions, but unified management becomes difficult to implement
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a universal information model that can represent communications networks, computer servers, and storage systems using a common set of objects and relationships. This universal model allows unified management while maintaining the ability to represent the specific functional characteristics of each system type through appropriate object attributes and relationships within the same framework.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent uses parameter changes to adapt the common information model to represent different system types. By varying the values and combinations of parameters (object types, attributes, relationships) within the unified model, the system can represent the diverse characteristics of networks, servers, and storage systems without requiring separate architectural frameworks, thus achieving both unity and specificity.
3Reliability
If separate management techniques are used for each computing network element, then each element can be managed with appropriate protocols, but the interplay between elements cannot be efficiently coordinated
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges separate management techniques into a coordinated unified system by creating a common information model that explicitly represents the interrelationships between networks, servers, and storage systems. This allows the management system to coordinate actions across different element types while maintaining the specialized protocols and techniques needed for each element type, achieving both coordination and technical appropriateness.
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AI summary
Methods and systems for managing a computing network. At least a portion of the computing network is represented as a recursive architecture of elements representing bit transport, bit transformation and bit storage actions of the network. A respective set of one or more elements are associated with at least one system implementing functions of the portion of the computing network. The recursive architecture of elements is subsequently used to manage the at least one system implementing functions of the portion of the computing network.