Program product for group leader recovery in a distributed computing environment

摘要

A new leader of a group of processors executing within a distributed computing environment is selected when the current group leader fails. The new group leader is selected from a membership list ordered in sequence of joins of processors to the group of processors. The selected leader is the next processor on the membership list after the failed group leader. In particular, it is the next active processor on the membership list. The group of processors is informed of the new group leader, after it is selected.