System, method and recording medium for antifragile computing problem management

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9934095-B2
Application number	US-201615196129-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 29, 2016
Priority date	Jun 29, 2016
Publication date	Apr 3, 2018
Grant date	Apr 3, 2018

Abstract

A computing problem management method, system, and non-transitory computer readable medium, include detecting an impending problem of a computing system, spawning a plurality of replicas when the detecting detects the impending problem, and launching a plurality of versions of an action, each version being launched and performed on a different replica of the plurality of replicas.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A computing problem management method, the method comprising:
detecting an impending problem of a computing system;
spawning a plurality of replicas when the detecting detects the impending problem; and
launching a plurality of versions of an action, each version being launched and performed on a different replica of the plurality of replicas.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein each replica including a version of the action is presented to a user for selection by the user as to which version to perform.

3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
introducing a plurality of new impending problems on the plurality of replicas for the launching to launch versions of the action to resolve; and
learning a version that resolves each of the plurality of new impending problems.

4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
introducing a plurality of new impending problems on the plurality of replicas for the launching to launch versions of the action to resolve; and
learning a version that resolves each of the plurality of new impending problems to thereby create an antifragile computing system.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the action comprises any one of:
a software patch;
different versions of the software patch;
a known solution to the impending problem;
a potential solution to the impending problem; and
a change in a time of implantation of the action.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the launching decides the plurality of versions of the action to launch based on any of:
a genetic algorithm including a random selection;
a white noise;
a Gaussian noise;
a voting;
a controlled spread relating to a mean and a standard deviation; and
a multidimensional distribution.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein a number of the plurality of replicas is based on at least one of:
a cost associated with a resource required for the number of the plurality of replicas; and
a criticality of resolving the impending problem.

8. The method of claim 1 , further comprising learning successful versions of the action based on a prior starting state, the version of the action, and a result of the version of the action.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein a number, a location on the computing system, and a type of the versions of the action of the plurality of replicas is based on a cognitive state of a user.

10. The method of claim 1 , wherein, if the detecting detects the impending problem, a processing speed of the computing system is decreased.

11. The method of claim 1 , wherein, if the detecting detects the impending problem, a processing speed of the computing system is decreased such that the plurality of versions of the action are performed by the plurality of replicas at a rate faster than a rate of propagation of the impending problem in the computing system.

12. The method of claim 1 , wherein the spawning spawns the plurality of replicas in a cloud-computing system.

13. The method of claim 1 , wherein the spawning spawns the plurality of replicas in an environment with an unlimited resource.

14. The method of claim 1 , wherein the spawning spawns a plurality of children replicas having a relationship to a replica of the plurality of replicas, and
wherein each of the plurality of children replicas includes a modified action of the replica with the relationship to the plurality of children replicas.

15. The method of claim 1 , wherein the impending problem comprises a system crash.

16. The method of claim 1 , wherein the impending problem comprises any of:
an impending device software or hardware status change including a fault, a system crash, a hard-to-recover state, and a speed of the impending device;
a state change; and
a hardware fault.

17. The method of claim 1 , wherein the computing system comprises any of:
a computer;
a smart phone;
a smart watch;
a head-mounted display;
a game console; and
a network component.

18. The method of claim 1 , wherein a success of the action is automatically determined if the computing system continues to operate.

19. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium recording a computing problem management program, the program causing a computer to perform:
detecting an impending problem of a computing system;
spawning a plurality of replicas when the detecting detects the impending problem; and
launching a plurality of versions of an action, each version being launched and performed on a different replica of the plurality of replicas.

20. A computing problem management system, said system comprising:
a processor; and
a memory, the memory storing instructions to cause the processor to:
detect an impending problem of a computing system;
spawn a plurality of replicas when the detecting detects the impending problem; and
launch a plurality of versions of an action, each version being launched and performed on a different replica of the plurality of replicas.

Assignees

• IBM

Inventors

• Kim Minkyong
• Li Min
• Pickover Clifford A
• Salapura Valentina

Classifications

• G06F11/1484 Primary

  involving virtual machines · CPC title

• G06F8/658

  Incremental updates; Differential updates · CPC title

• G06F2201/815

  Virtual · CPC title

• G06F2201/845

  Systems in which the redundancy can be transformed in increased performance · CPC title

• G06F8/65

  Updates (security arrangements therefor G06F21/57) · CPC title