Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Xiang Ao

Mingqiang Xu

Gang Xue

Qiufang Shi

Mingpiang Xu

In various embodiments, methods and systems for license-messaging using cloud public-messaging infrastructures are provided. A cloud public-messaging infrastructure supports license message communication between applications. The cloud public-messaging infrastructure may implement license-messaging that circumvents network control units that control communication to the network components. A license-messaging channel is initialized with an on-premise relay service using the cloud public-messaging infrastructure. A cloud-based relay service listens for a license request from the cloud-based application. The license request is pushed using the cloud public-messaging infrastructure such that the license request is pulled through the license-messaging channel via the on-premise relay service to the on-premise license server. A response to the license request is received at the cloud-based relay service, via the on-premise relay service using the license messaging channel, and forwarded to the cloud-based application.

Licensing using a cloud public-messaging infrastructure

Embodiments of the present invention relate to collaging image data to form a large image using high-performance computing in a parallel computing environment. The collaging of the image data includes performing an intra-node merge operation on image data such that the merged intra-node data is not written to the file system, but instead maintained in volatile processor memory. The intra-node merged data is may then be communicated in a memory-to-memory manner over a high-speed network to another node in the system for an inter-node merge operation, which limits the number of intermediate system I/O operations to perform the collaging process. Following the intra-node and inter-node merge operations, tiles representing the collaged image may be written to a file system memory for persistent storage.

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