Instrument based distributed computing systems

Abstract

An instrument may include a technical computing worker to execute a created task. The instrument may further include an instrumentation functionality unit that may provide functionalities for performing testing or measuring in relation to the technical computing worker, and a network interface that may allow the technical computing worker to communicate with another device.

Description

[0001] This application is a continuation of U.S. Pat. No. 11 / 301,061, entitled “INSTRUMENT-BASED DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING SYSTEMS,” filed Dec. 12, 2005, which is a continuation-in-part of a pending U.S. patent application entitled “DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS IN TEST ENVIRONMENT” (U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11 / 028171) filed on Dec. 30, 2004, which is a continuation-in-part of a pending U.S. patent application entitled “METHODS AND SYSTEM FOR DISTRIBUTING TECHNICAL COMPUTING TASKS TO TECHNICAL COMPUTING WORKERS” (U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10 / 896784) filed on Jul. 21, 2004, and a pending U.S. patent application entitled “TEST MANAGER FOR INTEGRATED TEST ENVIRONMENTS” (U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10 / 925,413) filed on Aug. 24, 2004, the disclosures of all of these documents being incorporated by reference in their entireties herein.TECHNICAL FIELD [0002] The present invention generally relates to a distributed computing environment and more particularly to methods, systems and m...

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Benefits of technology

This system accelerates the execution of complex computations by distributing tasks across multiple technical computing workers, reducing processing time and enhancing the capability to handle large-scale simulations and analyses efficiently.

Problems solved by technology

With many engineering and scientific problems requiring larger and more complex modeling, computations accordingly become more resource intensive and time-consuming.

However, a single workstation can be limiting to the size of the problem that can be solved, because of the relationship of the computing power of the workstation to the computing power necessary to execute computing intensive iterative processing of complex problems in a reasonable time.

This would require five-thousand computations to analyze the problem as desired and the single computer would take an unreasonable or undesirable amount of time to perform these simulations.

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