Patent ID: 8572229
Filing Date: 2013-10-29
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method at an entity in a distributed computing system comprising: providing an input arranged to connect to the distributed computing system and access a distributed computing graph associated with an activity to be carried out in the distributed computing system, the distributed computing graph representing currently executing processes in the distributed computing system; arranging a processor to provide a dynamic mapping between the distributed computing graph and a data structure at the entity holding a graph layout view of the distributed computing graph such that changes in the graph layout view are reflected in the distributed computing graph; receiving user input adding an icon in the graph layout view the icon having associated specified functionality; and using the processor to update the distributed computing graph to provide the specified functionality, the icon representing a bus and the associated specified functionality being that a plurality of the currently executing processes which are connected by the bus in the graph layout view are able to read and/or write data to the bus such that any data written to the bus is visible to all those processes connected to the bus which are able to read, and wherein: