Fault tolerant system for execution of parallel jobs
US8291419B2 · kind B2 · utility
4Cited by
7References
14Claims
0Family size
Assignee
Inventors
Key dates
| Filing date | Sep 26, 2006 |
| Grant date | Oct 16, 2012 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Dec 5, 2030 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F9/4843
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
The present invention provides a fault tolerant system and method for parallel job execution. In the proposed solution the job state and the state transition control are decoupled. The job execution infrastructure maintains the state information for all the executing jobs, and the job control units, one per-job, control the state transitions of their jobs. Due to the stateless nature of the control units, the system and method allow jobs to continue uninterrupted execution even when the corresponding control units fail.
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Objective bibliographic and citation counts.