Transmission of Map/Reduce data in a data center
US9590915B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Mar 14, 2011 |
| Grant date | Mar 7, 2017 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 6, 2033 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F16/24532
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A method for transmission of map/reduce data in a data center having a storage network (SAN), the data center including multiple servers deployed with a job tracker, map task trackers and reduce task trackers, the method comprising: in response to receiving a map task allocated by the job tracker, a map task tracker performing the map task and generating map task outputs; the map task tracker writing the map task outputs to the storage network; and in response to receiving a reduce task allocated by the job tracker, a reduce task tracker reading the map tasks outputs from the storage network.
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