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Title: Collectively loading an application in a parallel computer

Patent ·
OSTI ID:1234685

Collectively loading an application in a parallel computer, the parallel computer comprising a plurality of compute nodes, including: identifying, by a parallel computer control system, a subset of compute nodes in the parallel computer to execute a job; selecting, by the parallel computer control system, one of the subset of compute nodes in the parallel computer as a job leader compute node; retrieving, by the job leader compute node from computer memory, an application for executing the job; and broadcasting, by the job leader to the subset of compute nodes in the parallel computer, the application for executing the job.

Research Organization:
International Business Machines Corp., Armonk, NY (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
B579040
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY)
Patent Number(s):
9,229,782
Application Number:
13/431,248
OSTI ID:
1234685
Resource Relation:
Patent File Date: 2012 Mar 27
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

References (2)

Dynamically modifying a cluster of computing nodes used for distributed execution of a program patent October 2012
Parallel Application Load Balancing and Distributed Work Management patent-application March 2008