Recovery procedure for a dynamically reconfigured quorum group of processors in a distributed computing system

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PATENT NO 6487678
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09387185

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Dynamic reconfiguration of a quorum group of processors and recovery procedure therefore are provided for a shared nothing distributed computing system. Dynamic reconfiguration proceeds notwithstanding unavailability of at least one processor of the quorum group of processors assuming that a quorum of the remaining processors exists. Recovery processing is implementing by the group of processors so that the at least one processor which was unavailable during the dynamic reconfiguration of the group is able to obtain current state information once becoming active. Each processor of the group of processors includes an incarnation number and a list of member processors which resulted from a commit process resulting in its incarnation number. The recovery processing includes exchanging the processors' incarnation numbers and lists of processors for propagation of the current state of the quorum group of processors to the at least one processor now becoming available.

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INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONNEW ORCHARD ROAD ARMONK NY 10504

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Briskey, Kenneth C Hyde Park, NY 8 166
Novaes, Marcos N Hopewell Junction, NY 37 1443

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