Patent ID: 11922219
Assignee: ALIBABA GROUP HOLDING LIMITED
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 10:
11. A method for allocating a plurality of computing tasks across a plurality of groups of computing nodes, each group of the plurality of groups comprising a set of computing nodes A-D and a set of intra-group interconnects that communicatively couple computing node A with computing nodes B and C and computing node D with computing nodes B and C, the method comprising:
acquiring the computing tasks; and
executing, using first and second groups of the plurality of groups, the computing tasks to generate data packets that are forwarded over a set of inter-group interconnects between the first and second groups,
wherein the first and second groups are grouped into a plurality of sub-sections,
wherein a number of square sub-sections is maximized within the first and second groups,
wherein, for each of the computing tasks:
allocating different computing task to a different sub-section, and
first allocating a respective computing task to a square sub-section over a non-square sub-section.