Method and system for distributing resource-availability information within a distrubited computer system

摘要

Methods and systems disclosed in the current application are directed to efficient distribution of resource-availability information with respect to individual computer systems within a distributed computer system in order to facilitate various types of computational tasks, including configuration and management tasks and facilities. Certain of these implementations are based on highly efficient, lockless, message-based information-distribution methods and subsystems that transmission of messages at a frequency computed from a computed level of resource availability.

主权项

1. A distributed-computing system comprising:
two or more nodes, each node including one or more processors, one or more electronic memories, and one or more data-storage devices; a communications medium through which a first node transmits messages to a second node; and computer instructions, stored in one of the one or more memories and executed by one of the one or more processors within the first node that control the first node to
determine a value for a resource-availability metric,compute a frequency from the resource-availability metric, andtransmit, to the second node, messages at the computed frequency.