Output weighted partitioning method for a control program in a highly distributed control system

摘要

A method of partitioning a control program among many spatially separated computing devices places most of the program instructions in computing devices supporting outputs to the controlled processor equipment. Inputs then simply report their data to the output computing devices rather than having that data processed by a path of computing devices communicating with each other such as may cause the evaluation of the outputs to be delayed by multiple transmissions on the common link.