OPTIMIZED CONCURRENT DATA DOWNLOAD WITHIN A GRID COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT

摘要

In a Grid computer system having a plurality of download servers in networkcommunication with client computers and a download management system, a clientrequests a download plan from the download management system for downloadingdata in parallel from the plurality of download servers to a client. Theclient requests chunks of data from download servers identified by thedownload plan. The client monitors the performance of the download serversdownloading the chunks and reassigns portions of chunks amongst the downloadservers in order to improve the performance of completing the download of thechunks. A chunk of download data is a plurality of files, a file or a portionof file of data.