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Title: Distributing an executable job load file to compute nodes in a parallel computer

Abstract

Distributing an executable job load file to compute nodes in a parallel computer, the parallel computer comprising a plurality of compute nodes, including: determining, by a compute node in the parallel computer, whether the compute node is participating in a job; determining, by the compute node in the parallel computer, whether a descendant compute node is participating in the job; responsive to determining that the compute node is participating in the job or that the descendant compute node is participating in the job, communicating, by the compute node to a parent compute node, an identification of a data communications link over which the compute node receives data from the parent compute node; constructing a class route for the job, wherein the class route identifies all compute nodes participating in the job; and broadcasting the executable load file for the job along the class route for the job.

Inventors:
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
International Business Machines Corp., Armonk, NY (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1288358
Patent Number(s):
9,413,849
Application Number:
14/098,211
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY)
Resource Type:
Patent
Resource Relation:
Patent File Date: 2013 Dec 05
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
97 MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING

Citation Formats

Gooding, Thomas M. Distributing an executable job load file to compute nodes in a parallel computer. United States: N. p., 2016. Web.
Gooding, Thomas M. Distributing an executable job load file to compute nodes in a parallel computer. United States.
Gooding, Thomas M. 2016. "Distributing an executable job load file to compute nodes in a parallel computer". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1288358.
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abstractNote = {Distributing an executable job load file to compute nodes in a parallel computer, the parallel computer comprising a plurality of compute nodes, including: determining, by a compute node in the parallel computer, whether the compute node is participating in a job; determining, by the compute node in the parallel computer, whether a descendant compute node is participating in the job; responsive to determining that the compute node is participating in the job or that the descendant compute node is participating in the job, communicating, by the compute node to a parent compute node, an identification of a data communications link over which the compute node receives data from the parent compute node; constructing a class route for the job, wherein the class route identifies all compute nodes participating in the job; and broadcasting the executable load file for the job along the class route for the job.},
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year = {Tue Aug 09 00:00:00 EDT 2016},
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Splitting a workload of a node
patent, September 2009