Method of managing programs for distributed processing systems and apparatus therefor.

摘要

In a distributed processing system which distributively performs a series of processes for a work at a plurality of processing units (2i) connected to a common transmission path (3) and having a circuit (2i, 1i) for transmitting information from a processing unit to the common transmission path, a circuit (2i, 1i) for receiving from the common transmission path the information required for the processing of a program stored in each processing unit, and a circuit (2i, 1i) for detecting if all the information required for the processing of the program has been collected, performing the processing of the program using the collected information as input information for the processing and transmitting the processed result data to the common transmission path, a method of managing programs includes the steps of: transmitting a program stored in each processing unit or a program newly generated or modified by each processing unit, together with program generation information, to the common transmission path; and discriminating a difference between generations of a plurality of developed programs.