US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Feb. 17 for "Dynamic scaling for workload execution" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,553, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Dynamic scaling for workload execution" was invented by Jin Chi JC He (Xian, China), Guang Han Sui (Beijing), Peng Li (Xian, China), Gang Pu (Xian, China), Gang Wang (Xi'an, China) and Liang Wang (Xian, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the invention include receiving, by a controller, a workload comprising one or more tasks, generating a first pod comprising a first sidecar container, generating one or more ephemeral containers for the first pod based on the workload and one or more resource allocation metrics for the pod, ex...