DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING SYSTEM, OPERATION DEVICE, OPERATION CONTROL DEVICE, OPERATION CONTROL METHOD, METHOD OF CALCULATING COMPLETION PROBABILITY OF OPERATION TASK, AND PROGRAM

• US 20120089430A1
• Filed: 12/01/2011
• Published: 04/12/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/10/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Ukita, Masakazu, Okamori, Atsushi, Moriai, Shiho, Katagi, Masanobu
• Application Number:
  US13/309,289
• Publication Number:
  US 20120089430A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/7.12
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5066 Algorithms for mapping a plurality of inter-dependent sub-tasks onto a plurality of physical CPUs mappping at compile time, see G06F8/451
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0631 Resource planning, allocation, distributing or scheduling for enterprises or organisations
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 10/00 Energy efficient computing, e.g. low power processors, power management or thermal management

Abstract

A distributed processing system includes a plurality of operation devices that perform an operation using power derived from natural energy; and an operation control device that includes a task assigning unit that assigns the same operation task to the plurality of operation devices, and an operation control unit that controls the plurality of operation devices to perform the operation task assigned by the task assigning unit.

Claims

1. A distributed processing system comprising:

a plurality of operation devices that perform an operation using power derived from natural energy; and

an operation control device that includes a task assigning unit that assigns the same operation task to the plurality of operation devices, and an operation control unit that controls the plurality of operation devices to perform the operation task assigned by the task assigning unit.

2. The distributed processing system according to claim 1, wherein each operation device includes a probability calculating unit that calculates a probability of completing the operation task within a predetermined period on the basis of weather information, and wherein the task assigning unit extracts a combination of the operation devices in which the probability of completing the operation task within the predetermined period by at least one operation device is equal to or more than a predetermined value on the basis of the probability calculated by the probability calculating unit of each operation device, and assigns the operation task to the plurality of extracted operation devices.

3. The distributed processing system according to claim 2, further comprising a cost acquiring unit that acquires an amount of payable costs when the operation task is performed in the operation devices,

wherein when there are a plurality of combinations of the operation devices, the task assigning unit selects a combination of the operation devices in which the sum of costs acquired by the cost acquiring unit is the minimum, and assigns the operation task to the plurality of selected operation devices.

4. The distributed processing system according to claim 1, wherein each operation device further includes a probability calculating unit that calculates a probability of completing the operation task within a predetermined period on the basis of weather information,

wherein the operation control device further includes a cost acquiring unit that acquires an amount of payable costs when the operation task is performed in the operation devices, and

wherein the task assigning unit extracts combinations in which the sum of costs acquired by the cost acquiring unit is equal to less then a predetermined amount, selects a combination of the operation devices in which the probability of completing the operation task within the predetermined period by at least one operation device is the minimum from the extracted combinations of the operation devices on the basis of the probability calculated by the probability calculating unit, and assigns the task to the plurality of selected operation devices.

5. The distributed processing system according to claim 2, wherein the probability calculating unit includes a probability distribution calculating unit that is connected to the operation device and calculates a distribution p(Q) of probabilities of generating a power quantity Q within the predetermined period by a natural energy generator supplying the power derived from the natural energy to the operation device on the basis of the weather information, a power consumption calculating unit that calculates a power quantity Qc consumed when the operation device performs the operation task, and a power generation probability calculating unit that calculates a probability P of generating power equal to or more than the power quantity Qc calculated by the power consumption calculating unit by the natural energy generator within the predetermined period on the basis of the distribution p(Q) of the probabilities calculated by the probability distribution calculating unit, and

wherein each operation device reports the probability P calculated by the power generation probability calculating unit to the operation control device, as the probability of completing the operation task within the predetermined period by the operation device.

6. The distributed processing system according to claim 5, wherein when a storage battery with a storage quantity Qb is connected to the operation device, the power generation probability calculating unit calculates a probability P of generating power equal to more than power quantity (Qc−

Qb) obtained by subtracting the storage quantity Qb from the power quantity Qc by the natural energy generator within the predetermined period, on the basis of the distribution P(Q) of the probabilities calculated by the probability distribution calculating unit.

7. An operation device comprising:

a power receiving unit that receives power supplied from a generator generating power using natural energy;

a task information acquiring unit that acquires information related to an operation task and information related to a completion limit of the operation task;

a weather information acquiring unit that acquires weather information within a period until the completion limit of the operation task acquired by the task information acquiring unit;

a distribution calculating unit that calculates probability distribution of the power quantity supplied to the power receiving unit within the period until the completion limit of the operation task on the basis of the weather information acquired by the weather information acquiring unit;

a power consumption calculating unit calculates a power quantity necessary to perform the operation task on the basis of the information related to the operation task acquired by the task information acquiring unit; and

a completion probability calculating unit that calculates a probability of completing the operation task within the period until the completion limit of the operation task on the basis of the probability distribution of the power quantity calculated by the distribution calculating unit and the power quantity calculated by the power consumption calculating unit.

8. An operation control unit comprising:

a task assigning unit that assigns the same operation task to a plurality of operation devices performing an operation using power derived from natural energy; and

an operation control unit that controls the plurality of operation devices to perform the operation task assigned by the task assigning unit.

9. An operation control method comprising:

assigning the same operation task to a plurality of operation devices performing an operation using power derived from natural energy; and

controlling the plurality of operation devices to perform the operation task assigned by the task assigning unit.

10. A method of calculating a completion probability of an operation task in an operation device having a power receiving unit receiving power supplied from a power generator generating power using natural energy, the method comprising:

acquiring information related to an operation task and information related to a completion limit of the operation task;

acquiring weather information within the period until the completion limit of the operation task acquired in the acquiring of the task information;

calculating probability distribution of the power quantity supplied to the power receiving unit within the period until the completion limit of the operation task on the basis of the weather information acquired in the acquiring of the weather information;

calculating a power quantity necessary to perform the operation task on the basis of the information related to the operation task acquired in the acquiring of the task information; and

calculating a probability of completing the operation task within the period until the completion limit of the operation task on the basis of the probability distribution of the power quantity calculated in the calculating of the distribution and the power quantity calculated in the calculating of the power consumption.

11. A program for causing a computer to execute:

a task assigning a function of assigning the same operation task to a plurality of operation devices performing an operation using power derived from natural energy; and

an operation control function of controlling the plurality of operation devices to perform the operation task assigned by the task assigning function.

12. A program for causing a computer having a power receiving unit that receives power supplied from a generator generating power using natural energy to execute:

a task information acquiring function of acquiring information related to an operation task and information related to a completion limit of the operation task;

a weather information acquiring function of acquiring weather information within the period until the completion limit of the operation task acquired by the task information acquiring function;

a distribution calculating function of calculating probability distribution of the power quantity supplied to the power receiving unit within the period until the completion limit of the operation task on the basis of the weather information acquired by the weather information acquiring function;

a power consumption calculating function of calculating a power quantity necessary to perform the operation task on the basis of the information related to the operation task acquired by the task information acquiring function; and

a completion probability calculating function of calculating a probability of completing the operation task within the period until the completion limit of the operation task on the basis of the probability distribution of the power quantity calculated by the distribution calculating function and the power quantity calculated by the power consumption calculating function.