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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 31, 2016
Filed:
Feb. 13, 2014
Quantum Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
John Reinart, Roseville, MN (US);
QUANTUM CORPORATION, San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Example apparatus and methods support reconstructing an item from a set of erasure codes (e.g., fountain codes). Information about computer resources available to support reconstructing the item may be accessed and analyzed to control the spawning of multiple computer processes to support reconstructing the item. The information may include, for example, utilization and capacity data. The information may be provided by sensor agents that monitor the resources. The multiple computer processes may operate at least partially in parallel. Resources may be identified and computer processes may be spawned until all the resources that can contribute to the reconstruction are used. In one embodiment, computer processes may be spawned until the marginal utility of spawning another process falls below a threshold.