Application bundle pulling

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016342402-A1
Application number	US-201514718256-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	May 21, 2015
Priority date	May 21, 2015
Publication date	Nov 24, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

Disclosed aspects include receiving a stream of tuples to be processed by a plurality of processing elements operating on a set of compute nodes. A determination is made to retrieve an application bundle from a second compute node. The determination is made by a first compute node based on a set of application bundle data. The application bundle is installed on the first compute node by the first compute node. Using the application bundle on the first compute node, the stream of tuples is processed. In embodiments, the application bundle is retrieved by the first compute node in response to determining to retrieve the application bundle from the second compute node.

First claim

1 . A computer-implemented method for processing a stream of tuples using an application bundle, the method comprising:
receiving the stream of tuples to be processed by a plurality of processing elements operating on a set of compute nodes; determining, by a first compute node based on a set of application bundle data, to retrieve the application bundle from a second compute node; installing, by the first compute node, the application bundle on the first compute node; and processing, using the application bundle on the first compute node, the stream of tuples.

2 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
retrieving, by the first compute node in response to determining to retrieve the application bundle from the second compute node, the application bundle.

3 . The method of claim 1 , wherein determining, by the first compute node based on the set of application bundle data, to retrieve the application bundle from the second compute node includes:
examining the set of application data for the application bundle; detecting the second compute node has the application bundle; and determining, using at least one source criterion, to retrieve the application bundle from the second compute node.

4 . The method of claim 1 , wherein determining, by the first compute node based on the set of application bundle data, to retrieve the application bundle from the second compute node includes:
analyzing the set of application bundle data; and identifying a criterion which indicates to retrieve the application bundle from the second compute node.

5 . The method of claim 1 , wherein determining, by the first compute node based on the set of application bundle data, to retrieve the application bundle from the second compute node includes:
using a physical proximity criterion of the second compute node with respect to the first compute node.

6 . The method of claim 1 , wherein determining, by the first compute node based on the set of application bundle data, to retrieve the application bundle from the second compute node includes:
using an expected resource burden criterion when downloading the application bundle to the first compute node from the second compute node.

7 . The method of claim 1 , wherein determining, by the first compute node based on the set of application bundle data, to retrieve the application bundle from the second compute node includes:
using a utilization frequency criterion of the second compute node.

8 . The method of claim 1 , wherein determining, by the first compute node based on the set of application bundle data, to retrieve the application bundle from the second compute node includes:
using a random selection criterion of the second compute node.

9 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the set of application bundle data is stored separate from both the first compute node and the second compute node.

10 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
updating the set of application bundle data to include that the first compute node has the application bundle; determining, by a third compute node based on the set of application bundle data, to retrieve the application bundle from the first compute node; and installing, by the third compute node, the application bundle on the third compute node.

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Assignees

• IBM

Inventors

• Fawcett Bradley W

Classifications

• G06F8/61 Primary

  Installation · CPC title

• H04L67/34

  involving the movement of software or configuration parameters  (network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416) · CPC title

• G06F16/24568

  Data stream processing; Continuous queries · CPC title

• G06F16/22

  Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures · CPC title

• G06F8/41

  Compilation · CPC title