Forwarding data amongst cooperative DSTN processing units of a massive data ingestion system

A computer readable memory device of a dispersed storage network (DSN) comprises:

• a first memory element for storing operational instructions that, when executed by a plurality of computing devices, causes the plurality of computing devices to:
• as data objects are received:
• assign a data type identifier of a plurality of data type identifiers to each data object of the data objects based on the data object being a data type of a plurality of data types;
• send data objects having a first data type identifier to a first group of computing devices of the plurality of computing devices;
• and
• send data objects having a second data type identifier to a second group of computing devices of the plurality of computing devices;
• a second memory element for storing operational instructions that, when executed by a first group of computing devices of the plurality of computing devices of the DSN, causes the first group of computing devices to:
• interpret the data objects having the first data type identifier to sort, based on sorting criteria, the data objects having the first data type identifier into a first processing category and a second processing category;
• and
• dispersed storage error encode the data objects in the second processing category based on short term storage error encoding parameters to produce pluralities of sets of encoded data slices;
• and
• a third memory element for storing operational instructions that, when executed by the first group of computing devices, causes the first group of computing devices to:
• send the pluralities of sets of encoded data slices to a set of storage and execution units for storage and further processing.