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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 03, 2017
Filed:
Apr. 27, 2016
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Richard A. Warren, Acton, MA (US);
Sudarshan Raghunathan, Cambridge, MA (US);
Adam P. Jenkins, Marlbourough, MA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Object serialization is used to communicate references regarding shim objects. Shim objects are instantiated on one or more ranks of a distributed software application. The shim objects store a registration object in a distributed object cache for each rank. The registration object includes a unique identifier for a distributed array object and a reference to a local portion of the distributed array. The shim objects are serialized for communication of the stored references from a master rank of the distributed application to one or more worker ranks of the distributed application. Upon serializing the shim objects, the shim object's stored references are communicated from the distributed object cache for that rank to the one or more worker ranks of the distributed application. The shim objects are subsequently removed so that references to the underlying distributed array object are also removed, and memory previously allocated to the unique identifier is recoverable.