Transitional replacement of operations performed by a central hub

A system, comprising:

• a memory;
• and
• a processor coupled to the memory, wherein the processor performs operations, the operations comprising:
• numbering a plurality of computational devices at initialization time;
• and
• maintaining locally for each of the plurality of computational devices, those locks that are held by the computational device in a data structure that grants locks for accessing common data stored at a central hub;
• and
• in response to a failure of the data structure, determining a selected computational device of the plurality of computational devices to be a manager system, based on the numbering of the plurality of computational devices at initialization time.

A computer readable storage medium that is selected from a group consisting of a magnetic storage, an optical storage, a volatile memory device and a non-volatile memory device, wherein code stored in the computer readable storage medium when executed by a processor causes operations, the operations comprising:

• numbering a plurality of computational devices at initialization time;
• and
• maintaining locally for each of the plurality of computational devices, those locks that are held by the computational device in a data structure that grants locks for accessing common data stored at a central hub;
• and
• in response to a failure of the data structure, determining a selected computational device of the plurality of computational devices to be a manager system, based on the numbering of the plurality of computational devices at initialization time.

A method for deploying computing infrastructure, comprising integrating computer-readable code into a computing system, wherein the code in combination with the computing system is capable of performing:

• numbering a plurality of computational devices at initialization time;
• and
• maintaining locally for each of the plurality of computational devices, those locks that are held by the computational device in a data structure that grants locks for accessing common data stored at a central hub;
• and
• in response to a failure of the data structure, determining a selected computational device of the plurality of computational devices to be a manager system, based on the numbering of the plurality of computational devices at initialization time.