System for group leader recovery in a distributed computing environment

System for group leader recovery in a distributed computing environment

A new leader of a group of processors executing within a distributed computing environment is selected when the current group leader fails. The new group leader is selected from a membership list ordered in sequence of joins of processors to the group of processors. The selected leader is the next p...

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Hauptverfasser: PERSHING, JR., JOHN ARTHUR, KIRBY, ORVALLE THEODORE, BADOVINATZ, PETER RICHARD, CHANDRA, TUSHAR DEEPAK
Format: Patent
Sprache:eng
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CALCULATING
COMPUTING
COUNTING
ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
PHYSICS
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Zusammenfassung:A new leader of a group of processors executing within a distributed computing environment is selected when the current group leader fails. The new group leader is selected from a membership list ordered in sequence of joins of processors to the group of processors. The selected leader is the next processor on the membership list after the failed group leader. In particular, it is the next active processor on the membership list. The group of processors is informed of the new group leader, after it is selected.