Patent ID: 7836451
Filing Date: 2010-11-16
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method for approximating resource consumption of a computer system, comprising: building a computer work gradient matrix that sets forth consumption levels of a set of resources of the computer system in response to a set of background loading levels and a set of elemental work increments applied to the computer system; executing a set of calibrated tasks to gather information used to achieve a predetermined background loading level of the set of background loading levels and, with the computer system operating at the background loading level, performing a set of predefined operations having known values measured in the set of elemental work increments on the computer system; constructing a set of task work paths that characterize consumption levels of the set of resources in response to a computing task applied to the computer system at a particular background loading level of the set of background levels by executing the computing task and measuring the consumption levels of the computing task in the work increments; and approximating consumption levels of the set of resources for the computing task using the computer work gradient matrix, background loading level, and the set of task work paths.