US 11,700,299 B2Granted

Information processing apparatus, information processing system, non-transitory computer-readable medium, and information processing method

AssigneeMitsubishi Electric Corporation

InventorsAyako Nagata, Junji Sukeno, Masahide Koike, Susumu Iino, Keiichi Tsuda, Kiyoyasu Maruyama

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Abstract

Provided are a request processing unit to send a first process distribution request to other information processing apparatuses via a communication I/F unit, the first process distribution request being a request for ordering execution of a first process on a first; and an order destination selecting unit to receive, via the communication I/F unit, as a response to the first process distribution request, a first estimated reply time calculated as the time required to receive the transfer of the first data and to reply a first process result obtained by executing the first process on the first data, to use the first estimated reply time to select an order destination to which the execution of the first process is to be ordered by the plurality of information processing apparatuses, and to order the execution of the first process on the first data to the order destination via the communication interface unit.

Claims14

Dependent claims

An information processing method to execute a process in a distributed manner with n information processing apparatuses (n is an integer greater than or equal to 2) to be connected to a network, the information processing method being performed by each of the n information processing apparatuses, the information processing method comprising:

referring to management information to select, as m information processing apparatuses (m is an integer satisfying 1≤m≤n−1) suitable for executing a first process on first data out of n−1 information processing apparatuses, the n−1 information processing apparatuses being the n information processing apparatuses other than the information processing apparatus, the store management information including information indicating types, a number, and attributes of one or more computing resources provided for executing processes in each of the n information processing apparatuses and information indicating whether or not each of the n information processing apparatuses are able to accept a process execution order;
sending a first process distribution request to the m information processing apparatuses in the n information processing apparatuses, the first process distribution request being a request for ordering execution of the first process on the first data;
receiving, as a response to the first process distribution request, a first estimated reply time calculated as a time required to receive the transfer of the first data and to reply with a first process result obtained by executing the first process on the first data;
using the first estimated reply time to select an order destination to which the execution of the first process is to be ordered out of the m information processing apparatuses;
and
ordering the execution of the first process on the first data to the order destination,
wherein, the m information processing apparatuses are selected, by referring to the management information, depending on whether or not each of the n−1 information processing apparatuses satisfies conditions of types, a number, and performance of the one or more computing resources required for process execution and whether or not the n−1 information processing apparatuses are capable of accepting the process execution order.

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An information processing apparatus used as one of n information processing apparatuses (n is an integer greater than or equal to 2) in an information processing system that executes a process in a distributed manner with the n information processing apparatuses to be connected to a network, comprising:

processing circuitry
to perform communication with the network;
to store management information including information indicating types, a number, and attributes of one or more computing resources provided for executing processes in each of the n information processing apparatuses and information indicating whether or not each of the n information processing apparatuses are able to accept a process execution order;
to refer to the management information to select, as m information processing apparatuses (m is an integer satisfying 1≤m≤n−1) suitable for executing a first process on first data out of n−1 information processing apparatuses, the n−1 information processing apparatuses being the n information processing apparatuses other than the information processing apparatus;
to send a first process distribution request to m information processing apparatuses, the first process distribution request being a request for ordering execution of the first process on the first data;
to receive, as a response to the first process distribution request, a first estimated reply time calculated as a time required to receive the transfer of the first data and to reply with a first process result obtained by executing the first process on the first data;
to use the first estimated reply time to select an order destination to which the execution of the first process is to be ordered out of the m information processing apparatuses;
and
to order the execution of the first process on the first data to the order destination,
wherein the processing circuitry refers to the management information to select the m information processing apparatuses depending on whether or not each of the n−1 information processing apparatuses satisfies conditions of types, a number, and performance of the one or more computing resources required for process execution and whether or not the n−1 information processing apparatuses are capable of accepting the process execution order.

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A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing program to cause a computer to function as an information processing apparatus of n information processing apparatuses (n is an integer greater than or equal to 2) in an information processing system to execute a process in a distributed manner with the n information processing apparatuses to be connected to a network,

the program causing the computer to function as:
processing circuitry
to perform communication with the network;
to store management information including information indicating types, a number, and attributes of one or more computing resources provided for executing processes in each of the n information processing apparatuses and information indicating whether or not each of the n information processing apparatuses are able to accept a process execution order;
to refer to the management information to select, as m information processing apparatuses (m is an integer satisfying 1≤m≤n−1) suitable for executing a first process on first data out of n−1 information processing apparatuses, the n−1 information processing apparatuses being the n information processing apparatuses other than the information processing apparatus;
to send a first process distribution request to m information processing apparatuses, the first process distribution request being a request for ordering execution of the first process on the first data;
to receive, as a response to the first process distribution request, a first estimated reply time calculated as a time required to receive the transfer of the first data and to reply with a first process result obtained by executing the first process on the first data;
to use the first estimated reply time to select an order destination to which the execution of the first process is to be ordered out of the m information processing apparatuses;
and
to order the execution of the first process on the first data to the order destination,
wherein the processing circuitry refers to the management information to select the m information processing apparatuses depending on whether or not each of the n−1 information processing apparatuses satisfies conditions of types, a number, and performance of the one or more computing resources required for process execution and whether or not the n−1 information processing apparatuses are capable of accepting the process execution order.

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An information processing system to execute a process in a distributed manner with n information processing apparatuses (n is an integer greater than or equal to 2) to be connected to a network,

each of the n information processing apparatuses comprising:
processing circuitry
to perform communication with the network;
to store management information including information indicating types, a number, and attributes of one or more computing resources provided for executing processes in each of the n information processing apparatuses and information indicating whether or not each of the n information processing apparatuses are able to accept a process execution order;
to refer to the management information to select, as in information processing apparatuses (m is an integer satisfying 1≤m≤n−1) suitable for executing a first process on first data out of n−1 information processing apparatuses, the n−1 information processing apparatuses being the n information processing apparatuses other than the information processing apparatus;
to send a first process distribution request to m information processing apparatuses, the first process distribution request being a request for ordering execution of the first process on the first data;
to receive, as a response to the first process distribution request, a first estimated reply time calculated as a time required to receive the transfer of the first data and to reply with a first process result obtained by executing the first process on the first data;
to use the first estimated reply time to select an order destination to which the execution of the first process is to be ordered out of the m information processing apparatuses;
and
to order the execution of the first process on the first data to the order destination,
wherein the processing circuitry refers to the management information to select the m information processing apparatuses depending on whether or not each of the n−1 information processing apparatuses satisfies conditions of types, a number, and performance of the one or more computing resources required for process execution and whether or not the n−1 information processing apparatuses are capable of accepting the process execution order.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 17/310,218Filed 5 Feb 2019
Published: US 2022/0321644 A16 Oct 2022
Granted: 11 Jul 2023
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification7 codes

G06F 9/5027
To service a request: the resource being a machine, e.g. CPUs, Servers, Terminals
H04L 67/1001
In which an application is distributed across nodes in the network: for accessing one among a plurality of replicated servers
H04L 67/60
Network services: scheduling or organising the servicing of application requests, e.g. requests for application data transmissions using the…
G06F 2209/501
Indexing scheme relating to G06F9/50: performance criteria