Abstract: A communication network including connection switching exchanges, such as an ATM, a connection management apparatus is provided in a network management unit of a communication network. A group of logical connections with a fixed group size and consecutive identifiers assigned to the connections is treated as a unit. The number of logical connections in the group is an integer with a power of 2. The logical connections and connection identifiers assigned to the logical connections are set up and released in connection setting units each equal to a multiple of the group size in a unitary manner across the network. A priority level is assigned to each connection setting unit. When logical connections have been set for connection setting units sharing the same connection identifiers, logical connections with the shared connection identifiers pertaining to a connection setting unit with a smaller size is considered to be valid.

Abstract: A file input/output control system has first computers each having disks and connected to a network; and at least one second computer connected to the network for accessing the disks connected to the plurality of first computers, the second computer having: a retriever for retrieving first data access requests issued from a plurality of processes of an application and comparing the first data access requests with correspondence relation defining information to thereby confirm that the first data access requests are accesses to disks, the correspondence relation defining information being entered by a user in advance and indicating a correspondence relation between the disks and each of regions in a file stored in disks of the first computers; and a scheduler for creating second data access requests to the disks from first data access requests confirmed to be accesses to disks, in accordance with the correspondence relation defining information between the disks and each of the regions in a file stored in the

Abstract: A server system for providing services from servers to clients can provide prompt responses and various services with small-scale server apparatuses. Data transmission between the servers and the clients is performed by means of data processing relay apparatuses. The server adds processing control information to data to be requested. The data processing relay apparatus performs processings on requested data transmitted from the servers in accordance with the processing control information in providing a service to the client apparatuses.

Abstract: In a communication network including connection switching exchanges such as an ATM, a connection management means is provided in a network management unit of the communication network. A group of logical connections with a fixed group size and consecutive identifiers assigned to the connections is treated as a unit. The number of logical connections in such a group is an integer with power of 2. Logical connections in the communication network and connection identifiers assigned to the logical connections are set up and released in connection setting units each equal to a multiple of the group size in a unitary manner across the whole communication network. A priority level is assigned to each connection setting unit. When logical connections have been set for a plurality of connection setting units sharing the same connection identifiers, logical connections with the shared connection identifiers pertaining to a connection setting unit with a smallest size is considered to be valid.

Abstract: A storage medium for a file input/output control system having a plurality of first computers each having a plurality of disks and connected to a network and at least one second computer connected to the network for accessing the disks connected to the first computers. The storage medium includes a data code section storing a step of retrieving a plurality of first data access requests issued from a plurality of processes of an application and comparing the first data access requests with correspondence relation defining information to confirm that the first data access requests are accesses to the disks, a data code section storing a step of creating a plurality of second data access requests to the disks from the first data access requests confirmed to be accesses to the disks and transmitting the second data access requests to the network, and a data code section storing a step of, in each first computer, rearranging the second data access requests for each disk in the order of block numbers in each disk.

Abstract: A file input/output control system has first computers each having disks and connected to a network; and at least one second computer connected to the network for accessing the disks connected to the plurality of first computers, the second computer having: a retriever for retrieving first data access requests issued from a plurality of processes of an application and comparing the first data access requests with correspondence relation defining information to thereby confirm that the first data access requests are accesses to disks, the correspondence relation defining information being entered by a user in advance and indicating a correspondence relation between the disks and each of regions in a file stored in disks of the first computers; and a scheduler for creating second data access requests to the disks from first data access requests confirmed to be accesses to disks, in accordance with the correspondence relation defining information between the disks and each of the regions in a file stored in the

Abstract: Multiple parallel-job scheduling method and apparatus are provided which can improve the utilization of all processors in a system when a plurality of parallel jobs are executed concurrently. A plurality of processors constituting a computer system and each having the equal function are logically categorized into serial processors for executing a serial computing part or a parallel computing part of a parallel job and a parallel processor group consisting of multiple processors for executing the parallel computing part of the parallel job in parallel. In order that the parallel processors are shared by a plurality of parallel jobs, a synchronization range indicator is provided which can control by program whether the parallel processors are available in correspondence to the respective serial processors.

Abstract: In an information processing debugging apparatus, a debugger owns a debug information adding element and a data with type access instructing element. The debug information adding element gives data type symbol information of a data type from a debug information object file to be used by an information processing program in a program object file to be debugged. The typed data access instructing element instructs an access operation by using a variable symbol of the information process program and an added data type symbol information as a variable having a data type where an operator designates a variable of the information program. Such an information processing program which is not formed by a debug option is symbolically debugged without increasing the memory capacity. A practical information processing program such as a library which is not directly related to debugging operation can also be symbolically debugged.

Abstract: In a file management system a plurality of information processing devices are provided with files of tree structure. The information processing devices are linked through a communication line and dispersed files are utilized by a plurality of users in common. Each of the users can construct his own file without having any influence on the others. A table is provided including a column indicating the relation of links for the case where an arbitrary branch of a tree structure, included within at least one information processing device, is linked with a part of files included within another information device and a column specifying groups, for which the relation of links is valid. Linking is only permitted for access demands from members belonging to the group for which the relation of links is indicated as valid, to the part of the files of the other information processing device.

Abstract: In order to be able to arrange a series of files, which are in a reference relationship, on an arbitrary path, depending on the structure of the file system, a path specifying a particular file, which is in the reference relationship, is specified by a position relative to an object program file in a file system including a program, which is in course of execution, depending on the program, which is in course of execution.