Abstract: A method and apparatus for distributing computer resources in a network environment. A network of computer systems is partitioned into at least one computing system partition, and is configured into at least one redundancy group. The computing system partitions include applications, computing system nodes, and copies of a database schema. The copies of the database schema are replicated at each computing system partition within a network. The computing system partition manages interactions between the instances, the computing system nodes, and the copy of the database schema within the respective computing system partition. The redundancy group comprises at least one computing system and at a plurality of computing system partitions, and manages the replication of the database schema within the computing system and computing system partitions.

Abstract: A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for providing connectionless processing of client requests in a client-server computer system is disclosed. After forming a client-server connection, a client sends a request to a server. A key is associated with the request for identifying the request. The client-server connection is then terminated. The server processes the client request and produces a result, which the server stores for later reporting to the client. At a later point in time, a second client-server connection is formed. The client transmits the previously assigned key to the server. The server retrieves from storage the result from the earlier-processed request and transmits the result to the client.