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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 07, 2021
Filed:
Jun. 11, 2019
Equinix, Inc., Redwood City, CA (US);
Anand Ozarkar, San Jose, CA (US);
Ankur Sharma, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Christopher Alan Anderson, Fremont, CA (US);
Danjue Li, Dublin, CA (US);
Lance Weaver, San Ramon, CA (US);
Brian J. Lillie, Los Altos, CA (US);
Equinix, Inc., Redwood City, CA (US);
Abstract
This disclosure describes techniques for delivering high-accuracy and high-precision clock synchronization in heterogeneous distributed computer clusters. For example, the disclosure describes a synchronization engine that sets efficient clock synchronization processes based on a cluster node's characteristics, pricing, precision, geolocation, and/or cluster topology, while in some cases using a combination of master clock data with internal atomic clocks of computers. The techniques described herein integrate the synchronization engine into a time synchronization process that may provide stability, versatility, precision and cost balance using technical improvements for characterizing timing system delivery channels.