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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 05, 2023
Filed:
Dec. 30, 2022
Sas Institute Inc., Cary, NC (US);
Henry Gabriel Victor Bequet, Cary, NC (US);
Ronald Earl Stogner, Cary, NC (US);
Eric Jian Yang, Morrisville, NC (US);
Chaowang “Ricky” Zhang, Morrisville, NC (US);
SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC (US);
Abstract
An apparatus includes a processor to: output a request message to cause a first task to be performed; within a task container, in response to the request message and a data object not being divided, divide the data object into a set of data object blocks based on at least the sizes of the data object and the atomic unit of organization of data therein, as well as the storage resources allocated to task containers, and output a task completion message indicating that the first task has been performed, and including a set of data block identifiers indicating the location of the set of data object blocks within at least one federated area; and in response to the task completion message, output a set of request messages to cause a second task to be performed by executing multiple instances of a task routine within multiple task containers.