Decentralized distributed computing system

摘要

A distributed system includes a plurality of nodes connected over a network. Each node has a unique identifier which identifies the node in the distributed system. Tasks are launched from any node in the distributed system and include a unique identifier. If a node receives a task including its unique identifier, the node executes the task. Each node stores each task in a log. If a node fails, after recovering from the failure, the node queries the distributed system for tasks which were not received and tasks which were not completed due to the failure. Tasks may be launched on nodes based on location data gained by using in-band access to metadata specifying a location of nodes storing data corresponding to the metadata. A task may include starting a virtual machine such that an IP address is encoded in a file configuring the virtual machine.