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The MLP Parity Act is a No-Brainer for Renewable Energy
Introduction to MLPS
A Master Limited Partnership (MLP) is a publicly traded partnership with a tax structure that enables it to attract low-cost capital. The main attraction of an MLP from an investor's point of view is that MLPs don't pay corporate income tax. Profits are passed directly to unitholders via regular distributions. Profits from conventional corporations are taxed at the corporate level, then a second time via the personal income tax on distributed dividends. In contrast, MLP distributions are taxed just once, at the individual level.
But MLP distributions aren't immediately fully taxed either. In fact most of the distribution — typically 80 to 90 percent — is classified as a return of capital under the depreciation allowance, which subtracts capital depreciation from net income to account for the fact that assets like pipelines and wells lose value over time.
The depreciation allowance lowers the immediate tax bill but also the cost basis of the MLP investment, resulting in a larger capital gain when the MLP is sold. Over time the tax-deferred income can be invested elsewhere, allowing investors to compound returns that would have otherwise been taxed, while also earning a steady stream of income. This has made MLPs an extremely popular income investment. CONTINUE»
Hoping for a Rational Climate Change Discussion
The Best Path Forward on Coal?
This week the Wall Street Journal is running the latest set of answers from their "Experts Panel." Four questions were posed to the energy panel, and I chose to answer three of them. (The 4th was about solutions to the drought in the Western US — which I don't feel qualified to answer). The first question I answered was "What's the best way to move forward on coal?" – and my answer was published yesterday: The Case Against Burning Coal. That was followed up with a podcast "debate" between former Shell President John Hofmeister and myself on coal's future: Time to Stop Burning Coal? WSJ Experts Debate.
I suppose the topic of climate change will always be polarizing. One side believes that fossil fuel consumption threatens our very existence while the other sees climate change as a huge scam that threatens to destroy economic progress. Of course there are many shades of gray between these extremes, but those with the most extremist views are generally the loudest voices.
Today I hope to engage some of those loud voices with a rational, fact-based discussion. CONTINUE»
How Fossil Fuels Subsidize Us
Meet Nate Hagens
A good friend of mine said something to me the other day that I thought was profound. Nate Hagens is a former editor for The Oil Drum, and has written and lectured extensively on the risks of resource depletion. Nate holds a Master's Degree in Finance from the University of Chicago and a PhD in Natural Resources from the University of Vermont. In his previous life Nate was a Vice President at the investment firms Salomon Brothers and Lehman Brothers.
Today Nate sits on the Board of Directors of Bottleneck Foundation, Post Carbon Institute, Institute for Study of Energy and Our Future, and Institute for Integrated Economic Research — and he farms in Wisconsin. He described his personal journey from Wall Street to Wisconsin in one of the last articles ever published on The Oil Drum: Twenty (Important) Concepts I Wasn't Taught in Business School.
Fossil Fuel Subsidies
We were discussing the topic of fossil fuel subsidies on Facebook. The background is that two years ago I wrote an article for Forbes called The Surprising Reason That Oil Subsidies Persist: Even Liberals Love Them. The article is neither a defense of subsidies, nor a dig at liberals, but it became the most highly read article ever on Forbes Energy Source. Today the article still generates some rabid comments, often by people who obviously didn't take the time to read much beyond the title before offering their opinion on the article. I had just responded to a recent comment and posted that comment to Facebook, and thus began the discussion. CONTINUE»
Keystone XL's Emissions Versus Coal-Fired Power
Another Courageous Punt
I hadn't planned to write yet another Keystone XL pipeline article, but I have gotten a lot of questions since the recent announcement by the Obama administration that they are still unable to make a decision on the project. I agree with the Washington Post's assessment of the situation, that this is now into absurd territory.
At this point I don't think the project will be approved by this Administration, although it could be approved by the next. I think this is a simple political calculation by President Obama, that by foot-dragging and delaying he is keeping his environmentalist allies at bay, but without all of the political fallout around Democratic Keystone XL supporters should he simply reject the pipeline.
This is one reason I would make a terrible president. I can't play games like this. You make a decision. It can go one of two ways. You can say "I am going to make a stand along with my environmentalist allies who voted me into office and reject a continued expansion of fossil fuel infrastructure." That would be a courageous stand, albeit one more steeped in symbolism than in measurable climate impact. More on that below. CONTINUE»
Renewable Hydrogen on the Big Island
The Big Island
For the past five years, home for me has been on the northern end of the island of Hawaiʻi. For those unfamiliar with the Hawaiian islands, they consist of eight major islands. The biggest of these islands is the island of Hawaiʻi, also known as the "Big Island." The Big Island has a land area of 4,028 square miles — bigger than the area of Rhode Island and Delaware combined, and almost as large as Connecticut. It is also home to a couple of volcanoes that are over 13,500 high (and incidentally do see snow during the cooler months). But the population density of the Big Island is much lower that the other small states at 185,000 people, versus around a million in both Rhode Island and Delaware, and 3.5 million in Connecticut.
Hawaii has abundant energy resources from wind, the sun, geothermal, water, and biomass. Yet Hawaii relies on petroleum for 80 percent of its energy, making it by far the most petroleum-dependent state. One major reason for this is that Hawaii is the only state that still gets a large portion of its electricity from oil. Over the years the states on the mainland displaced oil with coal, natural gas, and nuclear power, and today are starting to displace some of these with renewables. But Hawaii doesn't have coal trains or natural gas pipelines, so we continued to use oil for electricity even as everyone else switched. The cost of continued oil reliance to electricity consumers has been very high.
But because of the relatively low population density and the abundant natural resources, the Big Island has the potential to do something that will prove to be much more challenging elsewhere: Derive most or all of its energy from renewable sources. I recently visited a laboratory that is working hard to realize this vision. CONTINUE»
How Do You Justify Consuming ExxonMobil's Oil?
Sometimes the written word is easy to misinterpret. More than once I have written an article to find that some minor point I made became the focus, or that the point I was making was just lost. Most of the time that's my fault, but sometimes it's because an editor wanted to spice up the title and make it a bit more controversial. In that case, that can inflame the reader before they even begin to read, and they either make comments based on a misleading title, or they read the article with significant bias.
I think there is a risk of misinterpretation with today's article, so I want to spell out my intent up front. This should not be read as a defense of ExxonMobil or their business practices, because that's not what it is. It's an attempt to get the reader to understand how they think, and why they do some of the things they do. Importantly, you may not be able to understand their actions given your view of the world. It's not because they are simply denying reality so they can keep making money, they just don't see the same things you see. Here is my attempt to explain that.
A Carbon Asset Bubble?
The 2009 Copenhagen Accord on climate change stipulated that if the worst impacts of climate change are to be avoided, we have to stop taking fossil fuels from the ground and burning them. Doing so has been increasing the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere for the past two centuries. Former Vice President Al Gore has been but one high profile voice advocating for leaving those fossil fuels in the ground, which would create a big problem for fossil fuel companies whose value is based on their fossil fuel reserves. Gore outlined his position last year in a Wall Street Journal editorial The Coming Carbon Asset Bubble. CONTINUE»
How We Can Industrialize the Internet of Things
For today's column, I bring you a guest post from Kevin Klustner. Kevin is the CEO of Powerit Solutions, an international energy management technology company.
How We Can Industrialize the Internet of Things
By Kevin Klustner
A number of thoughtful people – including Cisco CEO John Chambers – believe that the Smart Grid will ultimately be bigger than the Internet, by a magnitude of 100 or 1,000.
That's a fairly audacious prophecy.
And, if you asked a wide range of industrial companies with energy-intensive facilities right now, they might not necessarily agree with this prediction.
But their skepticism is understandable – and it's also based on current reality.
Indeed, many energy-intensive businesses today aren't able to interact fully with Smart Grid signaling and pricing for the highest cost efficiency because of a lack of real-time knowledge and a lack of technology integration with their automation systems. CONTINUE»
KiOR: The Fat Lady Warms Up Her Voice
In January of this year, as I do each year, I made several predictions for 2014. One was that natural gas prices would be higher. That prediction is looking pretty solid, with natural gas inventories this week dropping below 1 trillion cubic feet for the first time since 2003 — 49% below the level of one year ago. As I have argued in recent articles, this is likely to mean a year of higher natural gas prices than what we have become accustomed to over the past couple of years.
Among the other predictions I made for 2014 was "KiOR will declare bankruptcy in 2014." While it is still a bit early to write KiOR's (NASDAQ: KIOR) obituary, the patient is looking pretty unhealthy. I have been getting a lot of emails asking for comment on their recently released annual report, and I would have had something posted already, but I was traveling during the first half of the week. So let's dissect what has happened. CONTINUE»
Gas Inventories Reach 11-Year Low
Natural Gas Update
Two weeks ago I wrote about the abnormal situation with natural gas inventories in Natural Gas Inventories are Headed Toward Zero. I got a number of questions and comments about that essay, and since then we now have another two weeks of inventory data, let's update the picture.
First, I want to deal with some misconceptions that a few people had. I don't think we are going to run completely out of natural gas in storage. My point was that this winter marked the sharpest decline trajectory and we have made the largest ever withdrawals from storage in history, and barring a sudden warm spell we are going to go into injection season with very low natural gas inventories.
This has implications. Why? Because historically a significant deviation of inventories from normal will have a lingering impact on natural gas prices. CONTINUE»
Why Biofuels Tend to be Costly
Catching Up
I have gotten some inquiries about my status, as I don't typically go two weeks between posts. I am fine, but it's been a very busy two weeks. There was lots of travel, lots of deadlines, and in between I worked in a trip to Hawaii to spend a few days with my family. I got to be there for my oldest son's 18th birthday, and then helped chaperone an overnight camping trip for my son's 5th grade class on the beach in Hawaii. I must say I never got a school field trip like that in elementary school in Oklahoma!
This week I am back in Arizona, where I continue to work on a project. Next week I will be in Washington, DC to sit on a panel at the 2014 Methanol Policy Forum. My panel is called "Unlocking Our Vehicles to Methanol." I just cleared my last pressing writing deadline, and there are two topics I want to write about. One is the situation with natural gas inventories. The next Weekly Natural Gas Storage Report will be released tomorrow (March 13th), and I will put up a short post following that. So today I will address the other topic that's been on my mind.
The 60 Minutes' Edits
During my interview with Lesley Stahl, we discussed a lot of things that I wish had been aired. In fact, I told one of the producers that I think they could have avoided a lot of the fallout if they had aired more of my interview, because I presented a more balanced view than was presented by the overall story. As I said during my interview, the issue of cleantech isn't black and white, or good versus evil. It is a complex story with many angles, and an attempt to reduce it to black and white was certain to create controversy. CONTINUE»


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DUBLIN — The FFA senior land-judging team from West Bladen High School captured the state championship earlier this month while competing in the 61st annual North Carolina FFA Association Land Judging Career Development Competition.
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ELIZABETHTOWN — The Bladen County Retired School Personnel met on Thursday, Nov. 13, at the Bladen County Board of Education board room.
WHITE OAK — Adam Rutland, a senior at West Bladen High, recently attended the Congress of Future Medical Leaders in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 14-16.
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ELIZABETHTOWN — On a crisp Saturday morning, numerous bikers from around the region converged on the football/track area at Elizabethtown Middle School for the first-ever Cool School Bike Fest, a fundraiser for Bladen County Schools.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan honored 340 schools with the 2014 National Blue Ribbon Schools award at a luncheon at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D.C. The award recognizes public and private schools based on...
BLADENBORO — The Shipman Memorial Scholarship recipients will be named Saturday, Nov. 29, at 5 p.m. in a ceremony at Saint James AME Zion Church in Bladenboro. The scholarships are in honor of the late William Dewey Shipman Sr. and Zenah Mae...
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ELIZABETHTOWN — Delta Kappa Gamma Honor Society for Women Educators in Bladen County met on Sept. 18 in the Elizabethtown Presbyterian Church Activities Center. President Missy White Wells presided and Pam Taylor had the invocation prior to the...
BLADENBORO — Community Baptist Academy recently released its first-quarter honor roll.
DUBLIN — "Remember, Celebrate, Support " is the theme for the upcoming Veterans' Recognition Assembly at West Bladen High School.
GREENVILLE — Brittany Nicole Brisson has been selected to receive the East Carolina University North Carolina Space Consortium Grant.
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The outbreak has the potential "to inflict massive economic costs" on those three countries and its closest neighbors, according to the Worl…
A federal court has struck down the boundaries of Virginia's black-majority 3rd congressional district.
Sen. Mark Warner and challenger Ed Gillespie each claim they would be the more independent voice if elected to the U.S. Senate.
Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring responded to the Supreme Court's decision to allow same-sex marriage in Virginia.
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Virginia's health commissioner recommended amending abortion clinic regulations established under the McDonnell administration.
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American Idol delivered bad news to Jeremy Rosado last night, as this aspiring singer became the first finalist to be eliminated on season 11.
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Sir Paul Mccartney "scares" screen legend Doris Day whenever he phones the reclusive movie star and singer in the middle of the night, because she always fears there's something wrong.
Day admits she has formed an unlikely bond with MCCartney and enjoys regular chats with the former Beatle - although the Brit often wakes her up with his late night trans-Atlantic calls.
She tells People magazine, "When he first called, I said, 'Who is this really?' He's a rascal! He calls me at 3am (from England) and scares me! I say, 'I'm sound asleep, what's the matter?' and he says, 'It's your buddy, Paul!'"
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The Murray State College Aggies are the NJCAA Division II Region 2 baseball champions. The team won the NJCAA Division II Region 2 Championship over the weekend in Bartlesville, Oklahoma.
To get to the finals on Sunday, the Aggies defeated Northern Oklahoma College-Tonkawa 10-0 in round one, NOC-Enid 10-0 in round two, and Western Oklahoma State College 5-1 in round 3. MSC took care of Redlands Community College in the championship game 12-10 in ten innings.
After the game, region honors were handed out. Eight Aggies were named to the Region 2 All Tournament Team. Short stop Keach Ballard, right-handed pitcher Eddie Broll, right-handed pitcher Bradley Horn, first baseman Josh Ingram, catcher Eddie Kieffer, catcher Jacob Martinez, outfielder Noel Nevarez and outfielder/right-handed pitcher Jared Sterling were all named to the team. Ingram was also chosen as the tournament MVP. Murray State College Head Baseball Coach Zach Crabtree was named the NJCAA Division II Region 2 Coach of the Year.
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Dow Jones industrial average back above 15,000By STEVE ROTHWELL
The Associated Press | May 08,2013NEW YORK The Dow Jones industrial average was headed for its first close above 15,000 Tuesday as Wall Street followed world markets higher.
U.S. stocks rose after companies including satellite TV provider DirecTV and watchmaker Fossil reported higher quarterly profits. Markets rose in Japan and Europe in response to good news about central bank stimulus and the German economy.
The Dow and broader Standard & Poors 500 index are trading at record levels, driven by optimism that the U.S. economy is continuing to recover and as the Federal Reserve maintains its stimulus program.
The Dow punched through 15,000 Friday after the U.S. government reported a sharp pickup in hiring last month. The index is 14.8 percent higher this year.
We dont think people are giving enough credit to the strength of the economy, said Ryan Detrick, a senior technical strategist at Schaeffers Investment Research. We still like the market.
More than 80 percent of companies in the S&P 500 index have reported first-quarter earnings, and profits are at a record level.
Of companies that have reported, almost 70 percent have beaten the expectations of Wall Street analysts for income, according to S&P Capital IQ data. Those analysts expect earnings to rise 5 percent for the first quarter and to keep on climbing throughout the year.
Fossil, a maker of watches and handbags, was among companies reporting earnings Tuesday. The stock leapt $9.80, or 10 percent, to $108.76 after the company said its earnings rose 24 percent on higher sales. DirecTV, the countrys largest provider of satellite TV services, rose $3.89, or 6.7 percent, to $61.85 after its earnings beat expectations of financial analysts. The companys saw subscriber growth in the U.S. and Latin America.
The Dow was up 81 points at 15,050 as of 3:28 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time, an increase of 0.5 percent. The Dow first crossed above 15,000 on Friday. The Dow is headed for its 17th straight Tuesdays of increases. The only day of the week with a longer series of consecutive gains is Wednesday, which logged a streak of 24, according to Schaeffers Detrick.
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Go ahead and scoff. Laugh if you must. Isiah Thomas doesn't care.
He spoke to Dan LeBatard on 790 the Ticket in Miami and sounded like a guy who had learned from decades of being interviewed how to say the right things. How he and everyone in the Knicks front office are all chums, for example.
"Donnie Walsh and I and (owner) Jim (Dolan) and I, we've have always had great respect for each other. Donnie and I have worked with each other. Actually, Donnie gave me my first job in the NBA in terms of coaching with the Indiana Pacers. The relationships that we have and our ability to work together and understand how tough it is to win in New York and try to assemble talent to go out there and compete, I'm glad they have given me the opportunity to come back."
And that sexual harassment lawsuit that cost the team $11 million.
"I've always maintained my innocence. That's how I explain that situation. And also, there was a lot going on in my life at that time also. My mother was dying. I had been falsely accused in my mind of this horrible thing. We went to court to prove it and we lost and we moved on. I think that the press release that was released after the trial one of the things that was said is that we did not believe that the jury got it right."
And what about him ditching FIU?
"With any coach in college right now, whether it be basketball or football, I think that any fan of that school has that question about his or her coach. I want to put that rumor to rest. But, if I was to leave FIU, the only positions that I would be interested in looking at would be to be a general manager for a team or consulting or advising with a team. I don't see myself coaching in the NBA. I don't have any interest in coaching in the NBA… I don't have to take any job, although there will be some jobs that are appealing to me if they were to open. However, I wouldn't take just take any job to be a general manager in the NBA."
Wait… you'd only leave that that for is being a GM or the job you were just given by the Knicks? So you would leave.
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A queue includes a plurality of containers. Each container includes a lock. Clients, possibly in a multiprocessor system, can simultaneously access the queue, each client locking only a single container as needed. The clients can access the queue without using a lock manager, directly accessing the container locks to determine whether the containers are in use.
1. A queueing system supporting multiple simultaneous accesses, the queueing system comprising:
a computer;
at least a first container and a second container, each container storing client data and including a container lock;
a queue head stored in the computer and pointing to a first container; and
at least a first client and a second client, the first client and the second client operating independently, the first client capable of locking the first container and the second client capable of locking the second container each without using a lock manager.
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14. A method for using a queue supporting multiple simultaneous accesses, the method comprising:
locating a container by a client;
acquiring a lock for the container directly from the container by the client without using a lock manager;
using the container by the client; and
releasing the container lock by the client.
15. A method according to
acquiring a lock includes acquiring a read/write lock for the queue; and
releasing the container lock includes releasing the read/write lock.
16. A method according to
the method further comprises acquiring the read/write lock for the queue by a manager; and
acquiring a read/write lock for the queue includes waiting for the manager to release the read/write lock.
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22. A computer-readable medium containing a program to use a queue supporting multiple simultaneous accesses, the program being executable on the computer system to implement the method of
This application is a continuation-in-part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/636,293, filed Aug. 10, 2000, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,898,650 which claims priority from U.S. Provisional Patent Application Ser. No. 60/196,424, filed Apr. 12, 2000.
This invention pertains to queueing systems and more particularly to a queueing system supporting multiple simultaneous accesses.
Queues are commonly used in data processing systems. A large number of queues are widely used by system kernels to control the reusable hardware and/or software resources. For example, the schedulers of operating systems usually use queues to receive user requests, and dispatch jobs according to the queues.
Generally, a queue includes a plurality of entries (or elements), in which each element is a unit of the queue and usually contains user data. There are two broad categories of queues based on their implementation: arrays and linked lists. Elements in an array are usually located next to each other, while elements in a linked list contain the addresses of other elements. Array queues are easy to manage but generally have a maximum number of possible entries. Linked list queues require a slightly more complicated management scheme, but their size is bounded only by available storage space.
A queue usually has two kinds of clients, producers and consumers. A producer generates data and puts them into the queue, while a consumer retrieves data from a queue. Client accesses of a queue include inserting an element, deleting (or removing) an element, searching for an element and testing whether a queue is empty. Creating and destroying the queue itself can also be considered forms of client access.
Multiprocessing (MP) allows two or more processors to execute separate instruction streams in relation to a shared main storage simultaneously. MP has been recognized as presenting special problems for queue access. For example, the integrity of a queue may be affected if one processor tries to insert an element before another processor completes its insertion.
In the past, there were generally two ways to solve this problem. One solution uses locks to guarantee exclusive access to the queue by one client. The other solution limits client access points (where clients can insert/delete elements) and provides operations to set and swap conditions atomically. Both approaches limit the number of clients that can access the queue simultaneously, resulting in poor efficiency of existing queuing methods in MP environments.
U.S. Pat. No. 4,482,956, entitled �Parallel Queuing Methods,� issued Nov. 13, 1984, discloses a way to allow multiple insertion accesses to a queue simultaneously. However, clients have to serialize operations to search or retrieve data from a queue: i.e., only one processor can search or retrieve data at a time. The '956 patent can only be applied to simple linked lists with fix access points of insertion and deletion.
The previous solutions (including the '956 patent) do not solve the problem. They fail to separate the structure of the queue from the data the queue contains. The previous solutions use either locks or doors (access points) to prevent multiple accesses to the queue. Although many processors can compete for a door, only one processor can access the door at a time.
U.S. Pat. No. 6,412,034, entitled �Transaction-Based Locking Approach,� issued Jun. 25, 2002, teaches a system and method for locking resources in an environment. Rather than limiting resources to individual processes, the '034 patent describes how related processes can be granted simultaneous access to a resource. Upon receiving a request to access a resource, a centralized lock manager LM checks to see if the resource is currently locked. If so, the lock manager LM determines the transaction with which a process is associated. If the process is associated with the same transaction as the process that has locked the resource, then the lock manager LM allows the second process access to the resource. Otherwise, the lock manager LM denies the second process access to the resource.
The '034 patent also fails to solve the problem, in that it requires a lock manager. The lock manager LM acts as a single point of access for the system, in that before any process can use a resource, the process has to be granted access by the lock manager LM. All requests for resources have to funnel through the lock manager. If the lock manager is busy servicing one request, other requests have to wait, which can be inefficient.
Accordingly, a need remains for a queueing system that allows for efficient queue use and management in an MP environment with multiple simultaneous queue accesses.
An embodiment of the invention involves a queueing system. The queueing system includes containers, each container capable of storing data and including a container lock. A queue head locates the first container. Clients, operating independently, are capable of locking individual containers in the queueing system, without using a lock manager.
An advantage of the invention is that the container locks, by being with the containers, are decentralized. In systems with many containers and many clients operating in parallel, that the system can operate without using a lock manager makes the system more efficient than a system using a lock manager.
Computer system 105 can be a standalone system running a multiprocessing (MP) environment, or it can be part of a network. For example, in
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The utility of containers forming the queue is best seen in comparison to a queue in the prior art. In the prior art, clients usually locked the whole queue and directly accessed the queue. Clients could insert new elements into the queue and remove elements from the queue. In contrast, in the instant invention, the containers are semi-permanent objects. Clients can access the contents of containers and lock them for individual use, but cannot create or destroy containers within the queue. (The containers are called semi-permanent because the manager can create and delete containers in the queue, but clients cannot.)
As discussed above, the invention is applicable to all kinds of queue structures. The invention separates queue maintenance and client access. Client accesses do not directly change the containers that form a queue, and thus enable multiple accesses to the queue. As a result, queue performance improves.
At step 510, the client locates a container in the queue. At step 515, attempts to lock the container, so that no other client can use the container. In the preferred embodiment, an atomic set and swap operation is used to try to lock the container by setting the in-use flag to 1. An atomic set and swap operation sets a field to the given value and returns the old value atomically (in one indivisible computer operation). Many modern computer systems (e.g., IBM mainframes) have such instructions, and most MP environments (e.g., Novell's Multiple Processor Kernel) include such functions. Generally, the atomic set and swap operation will return the value of the field being accessed to the caller; the value returned gives the caller an indication of whether the operation succeeded. For example, the atomic set and swap operation will return the value �0� if the container was not in use before the atomic set and swap operation was performed. On the other hand, if the container was locked for use by another client before the client was able to perform the operation, the atomic set and swap operation will return the value �1.�
At step 520, the client checks to see if the container was successfully locked. If the atomic set and swap operation returned the value 0, the client has gained exclusive access rights to the container. Otherwise, the client must return to step 510 and locate another container. At step 525 (
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Table 1 shows pseudo-code of the process for removing data from a container not currently in use. A person skilled in the art will recognize how the pseudo-code can be modified for a client to insert data into the queue.
Since the queue structure does not change (the number of containers in the queue and their order do not change), the method of
A manager is responsible for maintenance of the queue. Although typically a person (e.g., a queue administrator), the manager can be a software routine or utility designed to monitor queue performance. The manager is responsible for creating and destroying containers as the queue's size changes. The manager can also perform maintenance on the queue. As discussed above, because the manager cannot perform his duties while clients are accessing the queue, the manager needs to acquire the read/write lock exclusively to access the queue (in comparison with clients, which can access the queue simultaneously).
The manager is the only one who modifies the structure of the queue, freeing empty containers and allocating new containers. When a queue is initialized, the manager can choose a default number of containers for the queue. When it is time to increase or decrease the number of containers in the queue, the manager can step in, acquire the read/write lock and modify the queue. Client cannot access the queue while the manager is holding the read/write lock. If desired, the manager can also rearrange the containers in the queue. If individual containers within the queue have properties (e.g., in a priority queue, a container can store only data of a specific priority), the manager can also change the container properties.
There are many ways to reduce manager's interventions. One good way is to set a threshold density (the ratio of containers-in-use/total-containers or of containers-having-data/total-containers) of the queue. If the density of the queue exceeds the thresholds, a flag can be set to signal the manager that it is time for queue maintenance.
The manager can also use statistics to track container usage. For example, the container can store its last time of access. Then, when the manager performs periodic maintenance, if a container has not been used for a given amount of time, the manager can decide to destroy the container as excess capacity.
The manager can also be alerted when clients are blocked for lack of containers. For example, it can happen that a client wants to use a container in the queue, but all containers are currently in use. The manager can be alerted to this situation, and can step in immediately to add containers to the queue.
At step 710, the manager performs the necessary maintenance on the queue. This can include adding new containers (if the containers are always or frequently full with data) or removing existing containers (if some containers are never used). The maintenance can also include changing the structure of the queue or adding or removing attributes from the queue and the containers. Finally, at step 715, the manager releases the read/write lock, allowing any blocked clients to access the queue.
It is worth noting that, unlike the '034 patent discussed above, no lock manager is required to implement embodiments of the invention. Clients can access the containers, container locks, and container valid data flags directly. Thus, clients can determine for themselves whether containers are available and whether or not containers contain valid data, without using a lock manager.
Having illustrated and described the principles of our invention in a preferred embodiment thereof, it should be readily apparent to those skilled in the art that the invention can be modified in arrangement and detail without departing from such principles. We claim all modifications coming within the spirit and scope of the accompanying claims.
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Stroll into this venue before or after your big meal. If it is not already playing host to a sporting gala, it will be a good spot to relax and enjoy a few drinks with friends. Up to 200 people can be accommodated here, and the billiards table is where one can have the most fun. A delectable selection of cocktails, cordials and martinis are on the menu. You can also puff the quality cigars available here.
101 West Fayette Street
Baltimore, MD 21201
+1 410 385 6604
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