Score-based scheduling of service requests in a grid services computing platform
US7130891B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Dec 5, 2003 |
| Grant date | Oct 31, 2006 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Feb 29, 2024 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY10S707/99932
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A service-oriented framework allows client applications to services hosted on a distributed computing access computational grid. Services facilitate remote, parallel execution of code in a way that is scalable, fault-tolerant, dynamic and language-independent. Services can be written in a variety of languages, and do not need to be compiled or linked with vendor-supplied code. A client written in one language can invoke a Service written in another. A benefit of the invention over traditional approaches is that it virtualizes the Service. Rather than send a request directly to the remote machine hosting the Service, a client request is sent to a manager, which enqueues until an Engine is available. The first Engine to dequeue the request hosts the Service. This mechanism, in which a single virtual Service instance (the client-side object) is implemented by one or more physical instances (Engine processes), provides for fault tolerance and essentially unlimited scalability.
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