Patent
1995-06-07
1997-11-11
Shin, Christopher B.
395674, 395616, 39518401, 39520003, 39520005, G06F 1506
Patent
active
056873727
ABSTRACT:
In summary, the present invention is a distributed computer system having a plurality of end user terminals and a plurality of loosely coupled server computers that share no resources with each other. A multiplicity of user application processes are distributed over the server computers. A communication interface or router transmits data between the end user terminals and a transaction router process, which executes on one of the server computers. The transaction router process initiates execution of transactions by ones of the user application processes based on data received from the end user terminals. A link manager process selects application processes to execute the applications based on computational load distribution criteria, so as to distribute computational load as evenly as possible over the server computers, thereby maximizing the throughput and responsiveness of the system. A file system, located on at least one of said server computers, provides access to stored files and database tables to all of the user application processes without regard to which server computer each such user application processes is executed on. The transaction router process includes a data structure for indicating transactions waiting to start and for initiating execution of ones of the waiting transactions by ones of the user application processes when associated start criteria are satisfied and user transaction processes are available.
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de Roo John S.
Hotea Andreas E.
Phillips Mark
Velasco David G.
Shin Christopher B.
Tandem Computers Inc.
Williams Gary S.
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