Managing data flows in graph-based computations

摘要

Processing data elements associated with a hierarchy that includes multiple levels includes: forming multiple flows of data elements, with each flow being associated with a level of the hierarchy; and including within at least some of the flows hierarchical structure information associated with a level of the hierarchy. For at least one of the levels, two or more and fewer than all of the flows include hierarchical structure information associated with that level.

主权项

1. A method for processing data elements associated with a hierarchy that includes multiple levels, the method including:
forming multiple flows, each flow including multiple data elements, with each flow being associated with a specific level of the hierarchy, in which the hierarchy corresponds to a hierarchical data structure formatted according to at least one of a markup language or a programming language, the forming including: including, within at least some of the flows, both data elements and one or more structure elements representative of hierarchical structure information associated with a level of the hierarchy, wherein two or more and fewer than all of the flows each includes at least one structure element associated with a common level of the hierarchy; and processing data elements included in the multiple flows using multiple compute components in which each compute component processes data elements associated with a specific level of the hierarchy, at least a first compute component processes data elements associated with a first level of the hierarchy, at least a second compute component processes data elements associated with a second level of the hierarchy, and the first level is different from the second level.