摘要 |
PURPOSE:To shorten system starting time by completing program loading to all satellite; machines in a short time without being affected by an increase or decrease in the number of the satellite machines. CONSTITUTION:A line 4 which connects a master machine 2 to the respective satellite machines 3a-3n is used as a medium which can make at least one of a broadcast communication and a multicast communication; and one of the satellite machines sends a program load request to the master machine and other satellite machines at a time, the master machine having received the program load request sends a system program 5 read out of a disk device 1 at a time, and the one satellite machine having sent the program load request and other satellite machines having received the program load request write the system program from the master machine in storage area 7a-7n once receiving the program. |