Multiple network connections for multiple computers
First Claim
1. A multiple computer system comprising a multiplicity of computers each of which is connected to a single communications network via at least two independent communications ports and wherein each of said computers sends and receives data via said network utilising a data protocol in which data packets can be transmitted or received out of sequence.
0 Assignments
0 Petitions
Accused Products
Abstract
A system and method for interconnecting multiple computers (M1, M2, . . . , Mn) via at least two independent communications ports (28, 38) are disclosed. Data is sent and received via a data protocol which identifies the sequence position of each data packet in a transmitted sequence of data packets. The packets can be transmitted and/or received out of order. The multiple computers each execute a different portion of an application program written to execute on a single computer.
-
Citations
11 Claims
- 1. A multiple computer system comprising a multiplicity of computers each of which is connected to a single communications network via at least two independent communications ports and wherein each of said computers sends and receives data via said network utilising a data protocol in which data packets can be transmitted or received out of sequence.
-
10. A system comprising a plurality of single computers coupled at least intermittently by a communications network and operating in concert to execute a single application program in parts with replicated memory locations in each of said single computers, each said single computer comprising:
-
means for executing a different partial portion of an entire application program that is written to execute only one conventional computer; automated means for modifying said application program to execute in parts on different ones of said single computers; an independent local memory with at least one memory location being replicated in each said local memory of each of said plurality of single computers; each of said plurality of computers having at least two independent communications ports and being connected to a single communications network via said at least two independent communications ports; each of said computers including means for sending and receiving updating data via the at least two independent communications ports utilizing updating data which can be transmitted or received out of sequence. - View Dependent Claims (11)
-
Specification