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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 02, 2009
Filed:
Jan. 23, 2006
Paul C. Castro, Harrison, NY (US);
Ravindranath Konuru, Tarrytown, NY (US);
Avraham Leff, New Hempstead, NY (US);
James T. Rayfield, Ridgefield, CT (US);
Danny L. Yeh, Irvington, NY (US);
Paul C. Castro, Harrison, NY (US);
Ravindranath Konuru, Tarrytown, NY (US);
Avraham Leff, New Hempstead, NY (US);
James T. Rayfield, Ridgefield, CT (US);
Danny L. Yeh, Irvington, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A system, method and computer program product for synchronizing replicas of shared data structures associated with one or more computer systems. The method comprises: evaluating a metric for performing a replica synchronization operation on a first computer system according to a first synchronization method; evaluating the metric for performing a replica synchronization operation on the first computer system according to a second synchronization method; and, selecting, at synchronization time, based on the evaluated metric, whether to use the first or second synchronization methods, and communicating a command to a second computer system to replicate a shared data structure based on the selected synchronization method.