Overpartitioning system and method for increasing checkpoints in component-based parallel applications
CA 2240286 C · Owner: Lasser, Cliff · Inventors: Lasser, Cliff; Lordi, Robert; Stanfill, Craig
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Two methods for partitioning the work to be done by a computer program into smaller pieces so that checkpoints may be done more frequently. Initially, a parallel task starts with one or more input data sets having q initial partitions, divides the input data sets into p partitions by some combination of partitioning elements (i.e. partitioners/gatherers) runs an instance of a component program on each of the, p partitions of the data, and produces one or more sets of output files with , each set being considered a partitioned data set. The invention is applied to such a task to create a new "overpartitioned" task as follows: , (1) the partitioner is replaced with an "overpartitioner" …
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