Patent ID: 9251156
Filing Date: 2016-02-02
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. An information processing system, comprising: a memory; and a processor configured to implement a program stored in the memory, wherein the processor comprises: a generation information storage unit that is configured to store generation information representing a generating process of data to be stored in a distributed file system, the generation information storage unit storing the generation information to a storage device; a relevance information storage unit that is configured to store relevance information representing relevance between the data and another piece of the data about being accessed in identical processing, the relevance information storage unit storing the relevance information to the storage device; and a placement destination determination unit that is configured to acquire the generation information about object data to be a target of determining a placement destination in the distributed file system, to find similar data among other pieces of data having been already stored in the distributed file system using the generation information, the similar data having a generation process similar to a generation process of the object data represented by the acquired generation information, to find relevant data having the relevance to the found similar data by using the relevance information, and to determine a storage location to be a placement destination of the object data based on a storage location storing the found relevant data.