Unfusing operators from a streaming processing element to avoid congestion

US9391908B1 · US · B1

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Publication numberUS-9391908-B1
Application numberUS-201514967299-A
CountryUS
Kind codeB1
Filing dateDec 12, 2015
Priority dateDec 12, 2015
Publication dateJul 12, 2016
Grant dateJul 12, 2016

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A streams manager determines when congestion is happening or is predicted to happen in a streaming application, and in response, unfuses one or more operators in the streaming application from its processing element. The selection of which operators to unfuse in which processing elements is made using suitable unfuse criteria, which may include selecting operators that do not maintain state, selecting operators that have a threaded port or queue preceding the operator, selecting operators at natural boundaries, and inserting queues before operators to be unfused. Once one or more operators are unfused, the streams manager can take action to enhance performance of the unfused operator(s). For example, the streams manager can allocate additional resources to the unfused operators, can create clones of unfused operators that process tuples in parallel, can move one or more unfused operators to a public cloud, etc.

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The invention claimed is: 1. An apparatus comprising: at least one processor; a memory coupled to the at least one processor; a streaming application residing in the memory and executed by the at least one processor, the streaming application comprising a flow graph that includes a plurality of processing elements that process a plurality of data tuples, wherein each of the plurality of processing elements comprises at least one operator; a performance monitor residing in th…

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What does patent US9391908B1 cover?
A streams manager determines when congestion is happening or is predicted to happen in a streaming application, and in response, unfuses one or more operators in the streaming application from its processing element. The selection of which operators to unfuse in which processing elements is made using suitable unfuse criteria, which may include selecting operators that do not maintain state, se…
Who is the assignee on this patent?
IBM
What technology area does this patent fall under?
Primary CPC classification H04L47/122. Mapped technology areas include Electricity.
When was this patent published?
Publication date Tue Jul 12 2016 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) (B1). Legal status and post-grant events are not shown on this page.
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