DOE Patents title logo U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information

Title: Heuristic status polling

Abstract

Methods, compute nodes, and computer program products are provided for heuristic status polling of a component in a computing system. Embodiments include receiving, by a polling module from a requesting application, a status request requesting status of a component; determining, by the polling module, whether an activity history for the component satisfies heuristic polling criteria; polling, by the polling module, the component for status if the activity history for the component satisfies the heuristic polling criteria; and not polling, by the polling module, the component for status if the activity history for the component does not satisfy the heuristic criteria.

Inventors:
 [1];  [1];  [2];  [3];  [1];  [1]
  1. Rochester, MN
  2. Cortlandt Manor, NY
  3. White Plains, NY
Issue Date:
Research Org.:
International Business Machines Corp., Armonk, NY (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1021890
Patent Number(s):
7958274
Application Number:
11/764,282
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY)
Patent Classifications (CPCs):
H - ELECTRICITY H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE H04L - TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
DOE Contract Number:  
B554331
Resource Type:
Patent
Resource Relation:
Patent File Date: 2007 Jun 18
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
97 MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING

Citation Formats

Archer, Charles J, Blocksome, Michael A, Heidelberger, Philip, Kumar, Sameer, Parker, Jeffrey J, and Ratterman, Joseph D. Heuristic status polling. United States: N. p., 2011. Web.
Archer, Charles J, Blocksome, Michael A, Heidelberger, Philip, Kumar, Sameer, Parker, Jeffrey J, & Ratterman, Joseph D. Heuristic status polling. United States.
Archer, Charles J, Blocksome, Michael A, Heidelberger, Philip, Kumar, Sameer, Parker, Jeffrey J, and Ratterman, Joseph D. Tue . "Heuristic status polling". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1021890.
@article{osti_1021890,
title = {Heuristic status polling},
author = {Archer, Charles J and Blocksome, Michael A and Heidelberger, Philip and Kumar, Sameer and Parker, Jeffrey J and Ratterman, Joseph D},
abstractNote = {Methods, compute nodes, and computer program products are provided for heuristic status polling of a component in a computing system. Embodiments include receiving, by a polling module from a requesting application, a status request requesting status of a component; determining, by the polling module, whether an activity history for the component satisfies heuristic polling criteria; polling, by the polling module, the component for status if the activity history for the component satisfies the heuristic polling criteria; and not polling, by the polling module, the component for status if the activity history for the component does not satisfy the heuristic criteria.},
doi = {},
journal = {},
number = ,
volume = ,
place = {United States},
year = {2011},
month = {6}
}

Works referenced in this record:

Performance analysis of parallel programs via message-passing graph traversal
conference, January 2006


Collective communication on architectures that support simultaneous communication over multiple links
conference, January 2006

  • Chan, Ernie; van de Geijn, Robert; Gropp, William
  • Proceedings of the eleventh ACM SIGPLAN symposium on Principles and practice of parallel programming - PPoPP '06
  • https://doi.org/10.1145/1122971.1122975

SPIN —an extensible microkernel for application-specific operating system services
journal, January 1995


Visual Programming for Message-Passing Systems
journal, August 1999


Optimization of MPI collective communication on BlueGene/L systems
conference, January 2005