Fair sampling in a hierarchical filesystem

P Godman, K O'neill, T Urban, G Williams - US Patent 11,461,286, 2022 - Google Patents
A software and hardware facility persistently maintains metrics on directories at different
levels within a tree of a filesystem. The facility hierarchically aggregates attributes of files …

Filesystem hierarchical capacity quantity and aggregate metrics

A Passey, K O'neill, P Godman, I Peet - US Patent 11,132,336, 2021 - Google Patents
A software and hardware facility persistently maintains metrics on directories at different
levels within a tree of a filesystem. The facility hierarchically aggregates attributes of files …

Scheduling linear workflows with dynamically adjustable exit tasks on distributed resources

GL Stavrinides, HD Karatza - 2023 IEEE 15th International …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this study, we propose and investigate a scheduling technique for linear workflow (LW)
jobs with dynamically adjustable exit tasks in a distributed system. The proposed approach …

Resource allocation and scheduling of linear workflow applications with ageing priorities and transient failures

GL Stavrinides, HD Karatza - 2022 IEEE/ACS 19th International …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In distributed environments, applications are usually complex and computationally
demanding, having a linear workflow (LW) structure. Additionally, such LW jobs may also …

Managing per object snapshot coverage in filesystems

SH Haber, J Brazel, NT Fachan, RE Gebert… - US Patent …, 2022 - Google Patents
Embodiments are directed to managing data in a file system. An object from the file system
that has parent objects may be provided. A snapshot in a current epoch may be generated …

Managing file system state during replication jobs

MA Chmiel, S Su, KD Jamieson - US Patent 10,725,977, 2020 - Google Patents
Embodiments are directed to managing data in a file system. A source file system may be
mirrored on a target file system by executing one or more replication jobs. A root object of …

Predictive performance analysis for file systems

Y Bai, TG Rothschilds, JM MacLaren… - US Patent …, 2020 - Google Patents
Embodiments are directed to managing file systems over a network. A core specification that
defines characteristics of a portion of a file system and parameters may be provided. The …

Replicating files in distributed file systems using object-based data storage

NJ Carter, SS Friedrich, CC Harward… - US Patent …, 2021 - Google Patents
Embodiments are directed to traversing a file system to determine file system objects to copy
to an object store. In response to visiting a document object in the file system, performing …

Fair Epoch Scheduling of Linear Workflows with High Variability in Task Service Demand

HD Karatza - … Conference on Advanced Systems and Emergent …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the evolution of the distributed computing model, the service times of the applications
processed on such platforms present increased variability. Moreover, the workload in such …

Scheduling Delay-Sensitive Bag-of-Task Jobs with Imprecise Computations on Distributed Resources

HD Karatza - 2023 International Conference on Computer …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The evolution of the distributed computing paradigm had as a result new computing models
such as grid and cloud computing. Furthermore, in these environments it is common to run …