SYSTEM FOR MANAGING SUBSCRIPTION TO PROCESSOR GROUP IN DISTRIBUTION COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a system for managing the membership of a processor group in distribution computing environment. SOLUTION: Specified action is identified and executed in order to manage the membership of a group. A processor requests subscription to the processor group and is added to the group. In a same way, the processor can request a leaving from the group and can be removed from the group owing to fault occurrence. The group of the members receives a multicast outputted from one member within the group to another member of the group. Moreover, the respective groups of the processors in distribution computing environment has a group leader for controlling action to be executed for the group of the members.