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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 08, 2005
Filed:
Oct. 20, 2000
Gregory M. Callis, Morrisville, NC (US);
Wesley Mcmillan Devine, Apex, NC (US);
Jon Kevin Franks, Holly Springs, NC (US);
Lap Thiet Huynh, Apex, NC (US);
Alan G. Packett, Raleigh, NC (US);
Gregory M. Callis, Morrisville, NC (US);
Wesley McMillan Devine, Apex, NC (US);
Jon Kevin Franks, Holly Springs, NC (US);
Lap Thiet Huynh, Apex, NC (US);
Alan G. Packett, Raleigh, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems and computer program products according to embodiments of the present invention provide distributing workload between a plurality of data processing systems in a cluster of data processing systems, wherein each of the plurality of data processing systems is executing an instance of an application which communicates over a network such that a connection request to the application may be distributed to any one of the plurality of data processing systems. Such workload distribution may be provided by defining a subset of the plurality of data processing systems which are to receive connection requests to the application having at least one predefined characteristic. A request for a connection to the application is received over the network and it is determined if the request has a characteristic corresponding to the characteristic associated with the subset of the plurality of data processing systems. The request is distributed to a data processing system in the subset of the plurality of data processing systems if the request has a characteristic corresponding to the predefined characteristic.