Computer resource allocation system and method

摘要

A generation device (102) is used to predict a future resource requirement based on the time variation of past resource usage, for each module of a plurality of modules in a data processing system. The number of transactions requested (transaction occurrence amount) in each module is stored in a storage device (101). The time variation of the future resource requirement is predicted by correlating this number with the past resource usage. After this, a resource allocation for each module is automatically varied by an allocation device(103)in accordance with the time variation of the predicted future resource requirement. Various timescales (hours, days, months) may be considered to deal with short term peaks in data processing, as well as longer-term resource planning. <IMAGE>