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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 13, 2010
Filed:
Mar. 29, 2005
Jennifer C. Harkness, Somerville, MA (US);
Ira Pramanick, San Jose, CA (US);
Ashwinee B. Khaladkar, Mountain View, CA (US);
Jennifer C. Harkness, Somerville, MA (US);
Ira Pramanick, San Jose, CA (US);
Ashwinee B. Khaladkar, Mountain View, CA (US);
Oracle America, Inc., Redwood Shores, CA (US);
Abstract
A distributed computing system is provided. The system includes a first node, a second node in communication with the first node, and a device coupled to the first node and second nodes. The first node and the second node include component specific modules. The first and second nodes access the device via a selected component specific module defined in the first and second nodes, respectively. The selected component specific module corresponds with the device. An apparatus for using a device having quorum device functionality as a quorum device in a clustering environment, a method and computer program embodied on a computer readable medium for using a device as a quorum device in a cluster environment, and a method and a computer program embodiment on a computer readable medium for interfacing with a quorum device coupled to a node in a cluster environment, are also provided.