DISTRIBUTED DIGITAL RULE PROCESSOR FOR SINGLE SYSTEM IMAGE ON A CLUSTERED NETWORK AND METHOD

摘要

A distributed digital rule processor to create a single system image (SSI) ona cluster of von Neumann processors. The rule processingengine has a group of digital rule nets each having their own local bindery(500) and local controllers (200) which are interconnected by aglobal bindery (400). Slave translators are interfaced to the global bindery(400) to receive rule calls from the rule nets and return statuses.A compiler maps the typical source code instructions into groups of ruleswhich are stored in the rule nets' storage area (100). The rulescontain groups of input variables and output variables. The output variablesof a calling rule become the input and data for the called rule.Slave application processes on the von Neumann processors perform slaveactivities for the slave translators, as the rule nets are unable tomanipulate data.