Patent
1996-12-13
1999-04-27
Barry, Lance Leonard
395675, G06F 1500
Patent
active
058988700
ABSTRACT:
A load sharing method for a parallel computer system having a computer group including a plurality of computers and an operation management mechanism which is a computer for managing the operation of the computer group. The method shares a load for executing a plurality of kinds of work processes to the plurality of computers in the computer group, and includes the steps of setting resource utilization target values by work for the plurality of computers in the computer group; collecting resource utilization states by work for the plurality of computers in the computer group to thereby inform the operation management mechanism of the resource utilization states; selecting a computer to execute a newly requested work process from the plurality of computers in the computer group on the basis of the differences between resource utilization target parameter values by work in the plurality of computers in the computer group and current values of a parameter indicating the reporting resource utilization states by work; and executing, in the selected computer, the newly requested work process
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Iwakura Yoshiyuki
Nagasuka Hirofumi
Okuda Tooru
Barry Lance Leonard
Hitachi , Ltd.
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