Operating system for use with computer networks incorporating two or more data processors linked together for parallel processing and incorporating improved dynamic load-sharing techniques
US6078945A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Jul 28, 1997 |
| Grant date | Jun 20, 2000 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jul 28, 2017 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F9/5088
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A data processing system incorporates two or more processors linked together in a network which are capable of parallel processing. The data processing system employs a load-sharing technique where any given processor, upon allocation of a process, decides based on the loading of its immediate neighbors in the network, whether it or one of its neighboring processors is better able at that time to execute that process. In accordance with that decision, the given processor either executes the process itself or hands the process over to one of its neighbors if that neighbor is better able at that time to perform that process.
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