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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 02, 2016
Filed:
Apr. 06, 2012
Onkar S. Parmar, Markham, CA;
Yonggang HU, Richmond Hill, CA;
Onkar S. Parmar, Markham, CA;
Yonggang Hu, Richmond Hill, CA;
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
According to one aspect of the present disclosure, a method and technique for facilitating the exchange of information between interconnected computing entities is disclosed. The method includes: receiving from a client, by a workload manager, a workload unit of data in need of processing by the client; initiating by the workload manager a persistent storage of the workload unit of data received from the client; without waiting for the initiated storage of the workload unit of data to complete, sending by the workload manager the workload unit of data to a plurality of compute nodes; and responsive to receiving a result of a processing of the workload unit of data by one of the plurality compute nodes, canceling processing by the workload manager of the workload unit of data by a remainder of the plurality of compute nodes.