| US 7,590,623 B2 | ||
| Automated management of software images for efficient resource node building within a grid environment | ||
| Craig William Fellenstein, Brookfield, Conn. (US); Rick Allen Hamilton, II, Charlottesville, Va. (US); Joshy Joseph, Poughkeepsie, N.Y. (US); and James W. Seaman, Falls Church, Va. (US) | ||
| Assigned to International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, N.Y. (US) | ||
| Filed on Jan. 06, 2005, as Appl. No. 11/31,543. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2006/0149714 A1, Jul. 06, 2006 | ||
| Int. Cl. G06F 7/00 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 707—3 | 13 Claims |
| 1. A computer-implemented method for dynamically managing a plurality of software images in a grid environment, comprising:
implementing a grid environment comprising a plurality of computing systems each comprising at least one resource and communicatively
connected over a network to share each said at least one resource through at least one grid service implemented within an
open grid services architecture enabling interfacing with each said at least one resource through at least one web service;
detecting, at a grid catalog and storage service monitoring said grid environment from among said at least one grid service,
a current software environment for a current grid job within said grid environment, wherein said grid catalog and storage
service maintains a catalog of a plurality of software images for installation on hardware resources from among said at least
one resource, each of said plurality of software images specified with a separate rationale from among a plurality of required
rationales for maintaining each of said plurality of software images in storage;
searching said catalog of said plurality of software images to determine whether an image for said current software environment
matches one from among said plurality of software images, wherein each of said plurality of software images comprises at least
one installation image for a particular software environment, wherein storage of each of said plurality of software images
is structured in said catalog for automated efficient access by each of a plurality of resource nodes within said grid environment;
responsive to not locating said current software environment in said catalog, automatically evaluating by said grid catalog
and storage service whether storage of said current software environment meets at least one of said plurality of required
rationales; and
responsive to determining storage of said current software environment meets at least one of said plurality of required rationales,
automatically capturing by said grid catalog and storage service at least one installation image for said current software
environment and storing said captured at least one installation image in said catalog as an additional software image to said
plurality of software images.
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