US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on June 17 for "Avoidance of workload duplication among split-clusters" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,343, issued on June 17, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Avoidance of workload duplication among split-clusters" was invented by Hai Hui Wang (Xian, China), Shan Gao (Beijing) and Yang Gao (Xian, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method avoids workload duplication in a cluster environment. The computer identifies a state change among a set of cluster resources in a cluster of nodes. Responsive to identifying the state change, the computer predicts resource requirements for a queued workload. The computer determines a pre-assignment of the queued workload to a sub-cluster...