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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 18, 1999
Filed:
Aug. 05, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Colin Leonard Bird, Eastleigh, GB;
Graham Derek Wallis, Locks Heath, GB;
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
39580031 ; 39520031 ; 39520038 ; 39580028 ;
Abstract
A parallel processing system having a number of processing nodes (S1 . . . Sn) each of which is provided with a message handling kernel (13 . . . n3) and an associated procedure register (14 . . . n4), the procedure registers being loadable by loading means (4) under the control of an application (3) and the nodes being able to exchange messages over a message interface (2) and to process messages to determine the message handling procedures to be invoked by the associated node in accordance with the contents of the associated procedure register.