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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 05, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 28, 2010
System and method for proactive task scheduling of a copy of outlier task in a computing environment
Srikanth Kandula, Redmond, WA (US);
Ganesh Ananthanarayanan, Berkeley, CA (US);
Albert Greenberg, Seattle, WA (US);
Yi LU, Champaign, IL (US);
Bikas Saha, Bellevue, WA (US);
Edward Harris, Redmond, WA (US);
Srikanth Kandula, Redmond, WA (US);
Ganesh Ananthanarayanan, Berkeley, CA (US);
Albert Greenberg, Seattle, WA (US);
Yi Lu, Champaign, IL (US);
Bikas Saha, Bellevue, WA (US);
Edward Harris, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
The described implementations relate to distributed computing. One implementation provides a system that can include an outlier detection component that is configured to identify an outlier task from a plurality of tasks based on runtimes of the plurality of tasks. The system can also include a cause evaluation component that is configured to evaluate a cause of the outlier task. For example, the cause of the outlier task can be an amount of data processed by the outlier task, contention for resources used to execute the outlier task, or a communication link with congested bandwidth that is used by the outlier task to input or output data. The system can also include one or more processing devices configured to execute one or more of the components.