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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 11, 2010
Charles J. Archer, Rochester, MN (US);
James E. Carey, Rochester, MN (US);
Matthew W. Markland, Rochester, MN (US);
Philip J. Sanders, Rochester, MN (US);
Charles J. Archer, Rochester, MN (US);
James E. Carey, Rochester, MN (US);
Matthew W. Markland, Rochester, MN (US);
Philip J. Sanders, Rochester, MN (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Sending, by a node requesting information regarding a resource to one or more nodes in a distributed computing system, an active message to perform a collective operation; contributing, by each node not having a resource, a value of zero to the collective operation; contributing, by a node having the resource, the node's rank; storing the result of the collective operation in a buffer of the requesting node; and identifying, in dependence upon the result of the collective operation, the rank of the node having the resource.