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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 14, 1996
Filed:
May. 26, 1992
Jeffrey C Kimbel, Forest Lake, MN (US);
Marc D Diamond, Inver Grove Heights, MN (US);
Stephen E Ross, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Charles L Rennolet, St. Paul, MN (US);
FMC Corp., Chicago, IL (US);
Abstract
The method and apparatus disclosed herein relates to parallel implementation of a combinatorial optimization in a multiprocessor network. The system operates as an intermediary between a root processor and a multiprocessor network. The system generates shadow nodes which are used to occupy idle capacity available within the multiprocessor network. Particularly, the shadow nodes are used to refine solutions for enumerative problems, search graph and the like while providing a near 100% utilization of a processor time in a multiprocessor network. The system provides a fully asynchronous and homogenous system design to enable the creation of locally ordered expansion queues.