US Patent Issued to DELL PRODUCTS on Nov. 11 for "Using a data processing unit to support a witness service for a cluster" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,607, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to DELL PRODUCTS LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Using a data processing unit to support a witness service for a cluster" was invented by Michael Hobbs (Austin, Texas), Syama Poluri (Round Rock, Texas) and Ramesha He (Karnataka, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a clustered environment, compute nodes work together to provide high availability and reliability for applications and services. To keep the compute nodes synchronized, a cluster employs a witness service, which typically operates on a separate system. In addition to issues related to potential loss of the witness service, there are also is...