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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 01, 2026
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2022
Dell Products, L.p., Hopkinton, MA (US);
Andrew Chanler, Berlin, MA (US);
Kevin Tobin, Hopedale, MA (US);
Mathew J. Pilozzi, Plainville, MA (US);
Dell Products, L.P., Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
Nodes of the cluster receive workload tasks and use a striping algorithm to determine which node in the cluster should process the workload tasks. Workload task allocation within the cluster is dependent on the cluster membership at the time the striping algorithm is implemented. If a node leaves the cluster, the cluster membership is updated, and the striping algorithm is used to reallocate workload tasks assigned to the leaving node to other nodes within the cluster. If a node joins the cluster, cluster membership is updated, and any workload tasks previously assigned to the cluster nodes are allowed to complete before the joining node is able to begin working on workload tasks. Cluster membership changes are updated in a shared global memory, and locally synchronized in connection with particular events, to implement the distributed cluster join management process.