摘要 |
A technique for organizing a plurality of computers (10-23) such that message broadcast, content searching, and computer identification of the entire collection or a subset of the entire collection may be performed quickly without the use of a controlling computer. The technique describes the creation, operation, and maintenance of a connection scheme (25, 26, 27, 40, 41, 42) by which each computer in the collection appears to be the top level (11) of a hierarchical array. The maintenance of this hierarchical connection scheme allows one to many communications throughout the collection of computers to scale geometrically rather than linearly. |