| 摘要 |
The invention relates to a method for flexibly controlling data flows in a distributed computer system which comprises a plurality of node computers and a plurality of connectors, at least one portion and preferably all of the connectors being time-triggered connectors (TTK), all node computers and all time-triggered connectors (TTK) having access to a global time, the clock synchronisation of said time-triggered connectors (TTK) being assisted or implemented by hardware mechanisms, particularly by hardware mechanisms of said time-triggered connectors (TTK), and the clock synchronisation of the time-triggered connectors (TTK) being more accurate than 1 μsec, all TT data flows (TTDF) that are to be flexibly controlled, whether incoming or outgoing from a node computer, being transported on one or more physical channels between one or more ports of said node computer and one or more ports of one or more time-triggered connectors (TTK), and each time-triggered connector (TTK) determining, on the basis of a parameter list it has received a priori, how long a message of a TTDF (DF message) is to be temporarily stored in the time-triggered connector (TTK) and at which, particularly future, point in time and at which port of said time-triggered connector (TTK) this temporarily-stored DF message is to be issued. The invention also relates to a computer system for carrying out such a method. |
