US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Feb. 10 for "Enhanced protection of checkpoint data in a high-performance computing cluster" (Irish, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,500, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Hopkinton, Mass.).

"Enhanced protection of checkpoint data in a high-performance computing cluster" was invented by Peniel Charles (Bangalore, India) and Owen Crowley (Carrigaline, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "HPC cluster nodes execute instances of an application, and periodically checkpoint data of the executing instances of the application are saved on each of the HPC cluster nodes. The HPC cluster nodes also implement Multi-Path Input/Output (MPIO) software that provide health status reports to a MPIO software management appliance. The MPIO software management app...