US 10333768

Patent Overview: US10333768B2 — "Cluster computing"

Title: Cluster computing
Patent number: US10333768B2
Application number: US14/181,112
Inventors: Zvi Tannenbaum; Dean E. Dauger
Assignee: Advanced Cluster Systems Inc (original and current assignee per the source)
Priority date: 2006-06-13 (noted as an assumption, not a legal conclusion)
Filing date: 2014-02-14
Publication date: 2019-06-25
Status: Active; adjusted expiration listed as 2028-10-09
Classifications: H04L41/04; G06F15/76; G06F9/5072 (grid computing); G06F9/54

Purpose (from the source): The disclosure concerns cluster computing and systems/methods for adding cluster computing functionality to a computer program. Computer clusters are described as two or more computers, microprocessors, and/or processor cores ("nodes") that intercommunicate to accomplish a task as a single computer. Many application programs are not designed to exploit clusters; some include an interpreter ("kernel") designed to communicate with only a single node. One cited example is Mathematica® from Wolfram Research, Inc. The disclosed embodiments aim to adapt a single-node software module (such as a kernel) to support cluster computing, including where source code is unavailable, and to add/support MPI calls from within a user interface such as the Mathematica Front End, enabling high-level language applications to run on a cluster.

Plain-language scope (from the definitions section): Embodiments describe a cluster with first, second, and third processors and computer-readable medium holding kernels that translate commands into code for their respective processors, plus cluster node modules that send commands to their kernels and communicate with one another. The first cluster node module is described as comprising a data structure in which messages originating from the other cluster node modules are held.

Source: https://patents.google.com/patent/[US10333768](/patent/US10333768)/en

What the excerpt does not establish: It does not provide the full claim set or claim language; does not establish validity, enforceability, or the accuracy of the listed legal status/expiration; and, per instruction, no litigation, ownership-transfer, or prior-art analysis is included. Details of the data structure's implementation are cut off in the excerpt.