TASK ASSIGNMENT METHOD, TASK ASSIGNMENT DEVICE, PATH SETTING DEVICE, AND NETWORK INFORMATION COLLECTION DEVICE

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suppress increase of computing time and waste of computing capability generated by transfer performance and communication quality of a network connecting between the above workers 50, in a computing system which performs processing of a task which performs large volume communication mutually using other computers (workers 50). SOLUTION: Assignment of a task to a worker 50 and decision of a path which are carried out in a task assignment device 10 require acquisition of traffic between tasks and network performance information between workers 50, and are made to be decided based on these pieces of information in addition to the conventional computing capability information and task size information of each worker 50. In addition, the above traffic between tasks can be predicted or recognized at a master 20. The network (backbone network 1) performance information is transmitted to a backbone network information collection device 40 from a device on the backbone network 1 and acquired by a task assignment device. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI