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AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsRobert Sidney Blackmore, Xin Chen, Rama Krishna Govindaraju, Anan Vishwanath Hudli
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A method for grouping I/O vectors to be transferred across a distributed computing environment comprising a plurality of processing nodes coupled together over a network. The method reduces the number of packets transmitted over a network between two or more nodes. The method includes the grouping of two or more I/O vectors into a single message, consisting of one packet with a predetermined maximum size, provided the sizes of the vectors are small enough to be placed into a single packet. The grouping method finds an efficient collection of vectors to form groups that fit inside a single packet. If two or more of the vectors can be combined so that the resulting single packet size does not exceed the predetermined maximum size, the vectors are grouped accordingly. Vectors whose size approach the predetermined maximum packet size are sent as a separate message.
A method for efficiently transferring noncontiguous I/O vectors and strided I/O vectors across a distributed computing environment comprising a plurality of processing nodes coupled together over a network, the method comprising the steps of:
A method for grouping noncontiguous I/O vectors and strided I/O vectors to be transferred across a distributed computing environment comprising a plurality of processing nodes coupled together over a network, the method comprising the steps of:
A computer readable medium comprising programming instructions for transferring noncontiguous I/O vectors and strided I/O vectors across a distributed computing environment comprising a plurality of processing nodes coupled together over a network, the programming instructions comprising:
A computer readable medium comprising programming instructions for grouping noncontiguous I/O vectors and strided I/O vectors to be transferred across a distributed computing environment comprising a plurality of processing nodes coupled together over a network, the programming instructions comprising:
A computer readable medium comprising programming instructions for noncontiguous I/O vectors and strided I/O vectors transfer from target to a source grouping in a distributed computing environment comprising a plurality of processing nodes coupled together over a network, the programming instructions comprising:
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