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COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE AND METHOD OF OPERATION FOR MULTI-COMPUTER DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING WITH SYNCHRONIZATION

  • US 20090235034A1
  • Filed: 12/23/2008
  • Published: 09/17/2009
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/21/2005
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A single computer configured to operate in a multiple computer system comprising a plurality of computers interconnected by a communications network without forming a distributed shared memory arrangement, said single computer having at least one application program each written to operate on only one computer but running simultaneously on said plurality of computers;

  • wherein different portions of said application program(s) execute substantially simultaneously on different ones of said computers and for each portion a like plurality of substantially identical memory locations are created;

    each in the corresponding computer and each having a substantially identical name; and

    said single computer including a lock means applicable to all said computers wherein any computer wishing to exclusively utilize a named memory location therein acquires an authorizing lock from said lock means which permits said utilization and which prevents all the other computers from exclusively utilizing their corresponding named memory location until said authorizing lock is relinquished.

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