Patent ID: 8244854
Filing Date: 2012-08-14
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method of gathering and propagating statistical information about resources in a distributed computing grid, comprising: receiving data, at a first resource in a first group of resources, relating to the first resource in the first group of resources on the distributed computing grid; providing the data to a second resource in a second group, wherein the act of providing the data comprises propagating the data to the second resource in the second group and discarding the data at the first resource in the first group; determining a first statistical model for the first resource in the first group based at least in part on the data that are received at the first resource, wherein determining, at the second resource, a third statistical model of the data by reducing a size of the data that are propagated from the first resource to the second resource into the statistical model; determining, by using at least one processor, a second statistical model of the second resource in the second group of resources based at least in part on the third statistical model rather than from the data that are propagated from the first resource to the second resources, wherein