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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 31, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 05, 2012
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Michael E. Aho, Rochester, MN (US);
John E. Attinella, Rochester, MN (US);
Thomas M. Gooding, Rochester, MN (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Computer program product and system to limit core file generation in a massively parallel computing system comprising a plurality of compute nodes each executing at least one task, of a plurality of tasks, by: upon determining that a first task executing on a first compute node has failed, performing an atomic load and increment operation on a core file count; generating a first core file upon determining that the core file count is below a predefined threshold; and not generating the first core file upon determining that the core file count is not below the predefined threshold.