Systems and Methods for Efficiently Identifying Failed Computing Nodes

A multi-node computing system, comprising:

• a plurality of computing nodes, each computing node of said plurality of computing nodes having access to associated node memory, for storing data and code, and at least one hardware processor configured to execute said code, said code including a set of native instructions configured to cause said at least one hardware processor to perform a corresponding set of native operations when executed by said at least one hardware processor;
• and
• shared data storage accessible to each node of said plurality of computing nodes, said shared data storage including task information and node information, said task information indicative of a plurality of tasks each available to be processed by one of said nodes, said node information indicative of a status of each of said nodes;
• and
• wherein said data and said code associated with a first one of said nodes include
• a first subset of said set of native instructions configured to generate a first unique identifier particularly corresponding to said associated first node,
• a second subset of said set of native instructions configured to periodically update said node information in said shared data storage with new information associated with said first unique identifier of said first node,
• a third subset of said set of native instructions configured to determine whether a first task, previously identified by said task information as being processed by another node, is available for processing by said first node, and
• a fourth subset of said set of native instructions configured to process said first task when it is determined to be available.

In a multi-node computing system, a computing node comprising:

• a hardware processor;
• memory for storing data and code, said code including a set of native instructions configured to cause said hardware processor to perform a corresponding set of native operations when executed by said hardware processor;
• and
• an interface to shared memory, said shared memory accessible to other computing nodes of said multi-node computing system;
• and wherein
• said data and said code include
• a first subset of said set of native instructions configured to generate a first unique identifier particularly corresponding to said computing node,
• a second subset of said set of native instructions configured to periodically update node information in said shared memory with new information associated said first unique identifier of said computing node,
• a third subset of said set of native instructions configured to determine whether a first task, previously identified by task information in said shared memory as being processed by another node, is available for processing by said computing node, and
• a fourth subset of said set of native instructions configured to process said first task when it is determined to be available.