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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 03, 2015
Filed:
Apr. 07, 2010
Christopher A. Olston, Mountain View, CA (US);
Christopher A. Olston, Mountain View, CA (US);
Yahoo! Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
Disclosed are methods and apparatus for scheduling an asynchronous workflow having a plurality of processing paths. In one embodiment, one or more predefined constraint metrics that constrain temporal asynchrony for one or more portions of the workflow may be received or provided. Input data is periodically received or intermediate or output data is generated for one or more of the processing paths of the workflow, via one or more operators, based on a scheduler process. One or more of the processing paths for generating the intermediate or output data are dynamically selected based on received input data or generated intermediate or output data and the one or more constraint metrics. The selected one or more processing paths of the workflow are then executed so that each selected processing path generates intermediate or output data for the workflow.