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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 2020
Filed:
Oct. 27, 2017
Petuum Inc., Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Wei Dai, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Weiren Yu, Beijing, CN;
Eric P Xing, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Aurick Qiao, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Qirong Ho, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Petuum Inc., Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Abstract
A system including a master machine and a plurality of worker machines is disclosed. The master machine includes, for example, an API server configured to receive a job description; a resource allocation module configured to determine a number of virtual machines required to perform a job based on the job description; a container scheduling module configured to create a container containing the number of virtual machines required to perform the job, wherein at least two of the virtual machines in the container resides on different worker machines, and wherein each of the virtual machines is configured to run a same application to perform the job.