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20110213899 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS FOR CONDUCTING SECURITY PROCESSING AND SECURITY PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing apparatus that executes security processing for a storage device connected thereto, the apparatus includes a processing command storage unit that stores a plurality of processing commands related to security processing according to a type of the storage device, a determining unit that determines the type of the storage device connected thereto, an obtaining unit that obtains a processing command corresponding to the type determined by the determining unit from the processing command storage unit, and an executing unit that executes the security processing corresponding to the storage device based on the obtained processing command. | 09-01-2011 |
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20120066540 | INFORMATION CORRECTION SUPPORT SYSTEM AND METHOD - An information correction support system includes a first information providing unit to provide first information that is input by a first user to a second user, a first information accepting unit to accept an error entry position in the first information and second information that is correct information for the input error entry that are input by the second user, an error entry position providing unit to provide the accepted error entry position to the first user without providing the accepted second information, a second information accepting unit to accept third information that is correction information for the error entry input by the first user, a correctness determination unit to determine whether the accepted third information is correctly input information based on the accepted second information, and a warning unit to warn the first user according to a determination by the correctness determination unit. | 03-15-2012 |
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20100306387 | NETWORK INTERFACE DEVICE - A network interface device is provided. The network interface device is connected to a computer and performs communications via a network includes a first management unit that identifies a communication connection by a port number, and manages a communication connection state of each port by a context that is stored in a storage unit and is associated with a port number, a second management unit that manages a storage state of the context, and a control unit that refers to the context, and performs an exemplary operation to establish a communication connection and an exemplary operation to cut off a communication connection between ports. | 12-02-2010 |
20110055428 | NETWORK FOR INTERCONNECTING COMPUTERS - In a parallel computer system including a plurality of processors, processors are classified into a plurality of groups including a prescribed number of processors, and processors are connected to each other in a complete connecting manner in the groups. Those groups are connected to each other as the respective processors are connected in linear to each other. | 03-03-2011 |
20110185032 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - A communication apparatus including: a receiving portion that receives alignment specifying information, the alignment specifying information indicating which of main memories included in a first information processing apparatus and a second information processing apparatus to align the requested data; a division location calculating portion that calculates a divisional location of the requested data so that the divisional location of the requested data becomes an alignment boundary on the main memory included in any one of the first and the second information processing apparatuses specified by the received alignment specifying information, the alignment boundary being integral multiples of a given data width; and a transmitting portion that divides the requested data stored into the main memory in the second information processing apparatus based on the calculated divisional location, and transmits the divided data to the first information processing apparatus. | 07-28-2011 |
20120060019 | REDUCTION OPERATION DEVICE, A PROCESSOR, AND A COMPUTER SYSTEM - A reduction operation device detects a non-correspondence of an operation type or a data type in a reduction arithmetic operation of a parallel processing. The reduction operation device is inputted a plurality of the synchronization signals and data, sets each transmission destinations of the plurality of inputted synchronization signals and the plurality of data corresponding to a next stage of a reduction operation and executes the reduction operation. The synchronization unit in the reduction operation device detects the non-correspondence between the operation type or the data type included in an instruction of the reduction operation after the synchronization is established and controls the arithmetic operation of the arithmetic unit. | 03-08-2012 |
20120159019 | PARALLEL COMPUTING SYSTEM, SYNCHRONIZATION DEVICE, AND CONTROL METHOD OF PARALLEL COMPUTING SYSTEM - A synchronization device includes a receiver that receives data from at least two synchronization devices establishing synchronization, and extracts synchronization information and register selection information from the received data, a transmitter that transmits data to each of the at least two synchronization devices establishing synchronization among a plurality of synchronization devices, a first and a second receiving state register that each stores the extracted synchronization information, a second receiving state register that stores the extracted synchronization information, and a controller that stores the extracted synchronization information into the first receiving state register and the second receiving state register alternately based on the register selection information, and controls the transmitter to transmit data including the register selection information to each of the at least two synchronization devices when the extracted synchronization information is completed in one of the first and the second receiving state register. | 06-21-2012 |
20120159121 | PARALLEL COMPUTER SYSTEM, SYNCHRONIZATION APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHOD FOR THE PARALLEL COMPUTER SYSTEM - A synchronization apparatus includes a receiver that receives data from a synchronization apparatus of another node that performs synchronization with its own node from among the plurality of synchronization apparatuses and extracts synchronization information from the received data, a transmitter that transmits the data to the synchronization apparatus of the other node, a receiving state register that stores the extracted synchronization information, a delay unit that delays the received data by a specified period of time, and a controller that stores the extracted synchronization information and synchronization information from its own controller in the reception state register and causes the transmitter to transmit the data to the other node and returns the data to its own node back to its own controller via the delay unit when the extracted synchronization information and the synchronization information from its own controller are stored in the reception state register. | 06-21-2012 |
20120250514 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, PARALLEL COMPUTER SYSTEM, AND CONTROL METHOD OF PARALLEL COMPUTER SYSTEM - An information processing apparatus connected to another information apparatus in a parallel computer system via a plurality of routes, includes: an arithmetic processing device to issue an instruction for collection of congestion information and for communication; a route information holding unit to hold route information for performing communication; a transmission unit to transmit a congestion information collection packet to any of the plurality of routes; a reception unit to receive a congestion information collection response packet corresponding to the congestion information collection packet from any of the plurality of routes; and a control unit to cause the transmission unit to transmit a congestion information collection packet, to select route information from the route information holding unit based on congestion information included in the congestion information collection response packet, and to cause the transmission unit to perform communication instructed by the arithmetic processing device based on the selected route information. | 10-04-2012 |