METHOD FOR MANAGING SUBSCRIPTION TO PROCESSOR GROUP IN DISTRIBUTION COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for managing the membership of a processor group in distribution computing environment. SOLUTION: Specified action is identified in order to manage the membership of the group and executed. The processor requests to become a member of the processor group to enter the group. In the same way, the processor can request to be free from the group and can be free from the group owing to fault occurrence. In a member group, a multicast is received which is issued from one of the members of the group to another member of the group. Besides, the respective processor groups in distribution computing environment have group leader for controlling action which is executed for the group of the members.