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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 11, 2015
Filed:
Nov. 13, 2008
David L Darrington, Rochester, MN (US);
Matthew W Markland, Rochester, MN (US);
Philip James Sanders, Rochester, MN (US);
Richard Michael Shok, Rochester, MN (US);
David L Darrington, Rochester, MN (US);
Matthew W Markland, Rochester, MN (US);
Philip James Sanders, Rochester, MN (US);
Richard Michael Shok, Rochester, MN (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A hybrid node of a High Performance Computing (HPC) cluster uses accelerator nodes for checkpointing to increase overall efficiency of the multi-node computing system. The host node or processor node reads/writes checkpoint data to the accelerators. After offloading the checkpoint data to the accelerators, the host processor can continue processing while the accelerators communicate the checkpoint data with the host or wait for the next checkpoint. The accelerators may also perform dynamic compression and decompression of the checkpoint data to reduce the checkpoint size and reduce network loading. The accelerators may also communicate with other node accelerators to compare checkpoint data to reduce the amount of checkpoint data stored to the host.