COMPRESSING DATA FOR DISTRIBUTED STORAGE ACROSS SEVERAL COMPUTERS IN A COMPUTIONAL GRID AND DISTRIBUTING TASKS BETWEEN GRID NODES

摘要

A distributed computer system in which a data set may be received, compressed and at least parties thereof transmitted and stored on remote provider nodes having storage resource available for use. The data set may be compressed using a global dictionary, possibly available centrally, such that only the compressed index stream needs to be stored on the remote provider nodes.