Methods are provided. A method includes announcing to a network meta information describing each of a plurality of distributed data sources. The method further includes propagating the meta information amongst routing elements in the network. The method also includes inserting into the network a description of distributed datasets that match a set of requirements of the analytics task. The method additionally includes delivering, by the routing elements, a copy of the analytics task to locations of respective ones of the plurality of distributed data sources that include the distributed datasets that match the set of requirements of the analytics task.