Patent ID: 7082474
Filing Date: 2006-07-25
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method operating a distributed processing system having a network coupling a multiplicity of Host distributed devices for processing workloads for the distributed processing system, a plurality of Client systems requesting processing of the workloads, and a Server system for selectively distributing the workloads from the plurality of Client systems for processing by the distributed processing system comprising the steps of: receiving a request by the Server system from one of the plurality of Client systems to use the distributed processing system to process a first workload; sending the first workload to a first Host distributed device selected from the multiplicity of Host distributed devices; sending to the first Host distributed device an index of one or more data addresses defining a location of first data required to process the first workload; accessing the first data from a first data address selected from the one or more data addresses in the index; and updating the index to include a storage address of storage coupled to the first Host distributed device as a location of the first data.