Antonelli, Terry, Stout, & Kraus, LLP
Highly reliable distributed computing system
 In a distributed computing system consisting of a plurality of computers each holding the computer reliability of its own, one of the computers includes a reliability management program, This reliability management program manages the program reliability required for each of a plurality of programs to be executed in the system. The reliability management program includes the steps of inquiring the computer reliability of each of the other computers to receive the computer reliability held in each of the other computers thereby preparing a computer information table, searching the table to find the values of the computer reliability of the computers corresponding to those of the program reliability of the individual programs, and allocating, on the basis of the result of the search, the individual programs to the individual computers. 
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Masaru Masahiko Takanori
Shimada Saito Yokoyama