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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 01, 2008
Filed:
Nov. 14, 2002
Jerome M. Verbeke, San Jose, CA (US);
Neelakanth M. Nadgir, Mountain View, CA (US);
Gregory R. Ruetsch, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Ilya A. Sharapov, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Michael J. Vernik, San Francisco, CA (US);
VU Trang, San Jose, CA (US);
Jerome M. Verbeke, San Jose, CA (US);
Neelakanth M. Nadgir, Mountain View, CA (US);
Gregory R. Ruetsch, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Ilya A. Sharapov, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Michael J. Vernik, San Francisco, CA (US);
Vu Trang, San Jose, CA (US);
Sun Microsystems, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
System and method for submitting and performing computational tasks in a distributed heterogeneous networked environment. Embodiments may allow tasks to be submitted and run in parallel on a network of heterogeneous computers implementing a variety of operating environments. In one embodiment, a user on an originating node may advertise code on the network. Peer nodes that respond to the advertisement may receive the code. A job to be executed by the code may be split into separate tasks to distributed to the peer nodes that received the code. These tasks may be advertised on the network. Tasks may be assigned to peer nodes that respond to the task advertisements. The peer nodes may then work on the assigned tasks. Once a peer node's work on a task is completed, the peer node may return the results of the task to the originating node.