DISTRIBUTED WORKLOAD REASSIGNMENT FOLLOWING COMMUNICATION FAILURE

• Main Authors: ZHU, Qibo, KOPPOLU, Lokesh Srinivas, KRUSE, David, DION, David, PETTER, Vladimir
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 09.06.2021
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; ELECTRICITY; PHYSICS; TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHICCOMMUNICATION

A generation identifier is employed with various systems and methods in order to identify situations where a workload has been reassigned to a new node and where a workload is still being processed by an old node during a failure between nodes. A master node may assign a workload to a worker node. T...