DISTRIBUTION OF PARALLEL OPERATIONS

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suitably provide techniques to more efficiently distribute process data for software application among a plurality of computers. SOLUTION: Parallel operation sets for use by the software application are identified, each parallel operation set is then provided to a master computing thread for processing, together with its associated process data. Each master computing thread then provide its operation set to one or more slave computers based upon parallelism in the process data associated with its operation set. In this manner, the execution of operations by the software application is widely distributed among multiple networked computers based upon parallelism in both the process data used by the software and the operations executed by the software application. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT