Patent ID: 8621265

Claim:
A method for execution by a computer core, the method comprises: receiving a request to store a data result from a processing module; determining whether to store the data result in an error encoded format; when the data result is to be stored in the error encoded format: facilitating encoding the data result in accordance with a dispersed storage error coding function to produce one or more sets of encoded data slices, wherein the facilitating includes: buffering the data result; when the processing module is available, sending the data result and encoding instructions to the processing module; executing, by the processing module, the encoding instructions to error encode the data result to produce the one or more sets of encoded data slices; and receiving the one or more sets of encoded data slices from the processing module; determining where to store the one or more sets of encoded data slices; and providing the one or more sets of encoded data slices to one or more identified memories for storage.