1. A job processing method for use with a job processing system comprising execution servers to execute tasks of a parametric job and a schedule server which extracts each of the tasks from the parametric job and which requests associated one of the execution servers to execute the task, wherein:
the schedule server comprises a scheduler and a data allocation control table;
each of the execution servers comprises a data allocation area, a data processing section, a data allocation section, and an external storage;
the data allocation section reads a data set as a processing target of the task in the data allocation area of an own execution server, and notifies correspondence information between the data set and the own execution server;
the scheduler stores, in the data allocation control table, the notified correspondence information between the data set and the own execution server to which information of a task executing the data set as a processing target is further added;
the scheduler retrieves, when selecting the execution server which can execute the task as the allocation-target execution server as an allocation target and allocating the task thereto, the data set as the processing target of the new task from the data allocation control table;
for data obtaining target at execution of the allocation-target execution server in the data processing section, if the data set as the processing target is beforehand allocated to the data allocation area in the allocation-target execution server, the scheduler sets the data set as the data obtaining target; and
if the data set as the processing target is beforehand allocated to the data allocation area in a second execution server other than the allocation-target execution server, the scheduler sets the data set allocated to the second execution server as the data obtaining target.
2. A job processing method according to claim 1, wherein if the data set as the processing target is beforehand allocated to the data allocation area in each of a plurality of the execution servers as allocation targets, the scheduler selects the data set of any ones of the execution servers in which failure has not occurred as the data obtaining target in preference to the data set of the execution servers in which failure has occurred.
3. A job processing method according to claim 1, wherein if the data set as the processing target is beforehand allocated to the data allocation area in each of a plurality of the execution servers other than the execution server as an allocation target, the scheduler sets as the data obtaining target the data allocation area in one of the execution servers having a lowest task allocation rate.
4. A job processing method according to claim 1, wherein:
the data processing section detects abnormal termination of a task during execution and notifies the abnormal termination to the scheduler; and
when abnormal termination of a plurality of tasks is notified from the data processing section in a predetermined one of the execution servers, the scheduler excludes the predetermined execution server from the execution servers as allocation targets at allocation of a new task.
5. A job processing method according to claim 1, wherein:
the data processing section detects abnormal termination of a task during execution and notifies the abnormal termination to the scheduler; and
when abnormal termination of a plurality of tasks is notified from the data processing section in a predetermined one the execution servers, the scheduler searches an entry of the task associated with the notification of abnormal termination from tasks indicated as \u201cduring execution\u201d in the data allocation control table and then clears the tasks of \u201cduring execution\u201d from the entry.
6. A job processing method according to claim 1, wherein if the data set as the processing target is not beforehand allocated to the data allocation area in any one of the execution servers, the scheduler sets the data allocation area in the external storage as the data obtaining target.
7. A job processing method for use with a job processing system comprising execution servers to execute tasks of a parametric job and a schedule server which extracts each of the tasks from the parametric job and which requests associated one of the execution servers to execute the task, wherein:
the schedule server comprises a scheduler and a data allocation control table;
each of the execution servers comprises a data allocation area, a data processing section, a data allocation section, and an external storage;
the data allocation section reads a data set as a processing target of the task in the data allocation area of an own execution server, and notifies correspondence information between the data set and the own execution server;
the scheduler stores, in the data allocation control table, the notified correspondence information between the data set and the own execution server to which information of a task executing the data set as a processing target is further added;
the scheduler retrieves, when selecting the execution server which can execute the task as the allocation-target execution server as an allocation target and allocating the task thereto, the data set as the processing target of the new task from the data allocation control table;
for data obtaining target at execution of the allocation-target execution server in the data processing section, if the data set as the processing target is beforehand allocated to the data allocation area in the allocation-target execution server, the scheduler sets the data set as the data obtaining target;
if the data set as the processing target is not beforehand allocated to the data allocation area in any one of the execution servers, the scheduler sets the data set in the external storage area as the data obtaining target; and
if the data set as the processing target is beforehand allocated to the data allocation area in a second execution server other than the allocation-target execution server, the scheduler sets the data set allocated to the second execution server as the data obtaining target.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. A modular lighting bar, comprising:
a housing having a length, a width, and a supply recess along the length of the housing dimensioned to receive an electrical supply line having a positive lead and a negative lead; and
a mounting bar having a top surface, a bottom surface, two side surfaces and two ends, and including
a housing recess along the top surface dimensioned to receive the housing and to orient the electric supply line therebetween,
at least one light recess on the bottom surface for receiving a miniature light assembly, the at least one light recess dimensioned and positioned such that a positive prong and negative prong of a light assembly disposed in the at least one light recess makes electrical contact with the corresponding positive and negative lead of the electric supply line,
a male connector at one of the two ends, and
a corresponding female connector at the other of the two ends.
2. The modular lighting bar of claim 1, further comprising means for fastening the mounting bar to a surface.
3. The modular lighting bar of claim 1, wherein the mounting bar further comprises at least one through hole extending through the mounting bar through which the modular lighting bar is fastenable to a surface.
4. The modular lighting bar of claim 1, wherein the male connector and the female connector comprise interlocking dovetail connectors.
5. The modular lighting bar of claim 1, wherein the mounting bar further comprises at least one member-receiving recess on the bottom surface dimensioned to receive an end of at least one member.
6. The modular lighting bar of claim 5, wherein the at least one member is a baluster.
7. The modular lighting bar of claim 5, wherein
the mounting bar further comprises at least one cylindrical recess on at least one of the two side surfaces of the mounting bar that internally connects to a corresponding member-receiving recess;
the at least one member-receiving recess is sufficiently wide to allow the member to pivot within the member-receiving recess; and
further comprising at least one rotating cylindrical plug disposed in the at least one cylindrical recess and having a means for securely receiving the end of the at least one member.
8. The modular lighting bar of claim 7, further comprising at least one cap dimensioned to cover an end of the at least one cylindrical recess.
9. The modular lighting bar of claim 5, wherein the at least one light recess and at least one member-receiving recess respectively further comprise symmetrically spaced pluralities of light recesses and member-receiving recesses.
10. The modular lighting bar of claim 1, wherein the mounting bar and the housing together serve as a hand rail mounting base.
11. The modular lighting bar of claim 1, wherein the supply recess is mateable with the electrical supply line in only one possible orientation.
12. The modular lighting bar of claim 1, further comprising at least one miniature light assembly including a light source enclosed in a light housing and a positive prong and a negative prong supplying power to the light source protruding from the light housing.
13. The modular lighting bar of claim 12, wherein the light source is an LED.
14. The modular lighting bar of claim 1, composed of at least one of the materials selected from the group consisting of metal, wood and plastic.
15. The modular lighting bar of claim 1, wherein the mounting bar and housing each include at least one section that is straight or curved.
16. The modular lighting bar of claim 1, wherein the mounting bar and housing include at least one articulating segments.
17. A modular lighting bar, comprising:
a housing having a length, a width, and a supply recess along the length of the housing dimensioned to receive an electrical supply line having a positive lead and a negative lead; and
a mounting bar having a top surface, a bottom surface and two side surfaces, and including
a housing recess along the top surface dimensioned to receive the housing and orient the electrical supply line therebetween,
at least one light recess on the bottom surface for receiving a miniature light assembly, the least one light recess dimensioned and positioned such that a positive prong and negative prong of a light assembly disposed in the at least one light recess makes electrical contact with the corresponding positive and negative lead of the electrical supply line, and
at least one member-receiving recess on the top surface of the mounting bar dimensioned to receive an end of at least one member.
18. The modular lighting bar of claim 17, wherein the at least one member is a baluster.
19. The modular lighting bar of claim 17, wherein
the mounting bar further comprises at least one cylindrical recess on at least one of the two side surfaces of the mounting bar that internally connects to a corresponding member-receiving recess;
the at least one member-receiving recess is sufficiently wide to allow the member to pivot within the member-receiving recess; and
further comprising at least one rotating cylindrical plug disposed in the at least one cylindrical recess and having a means for securely receiving the end of the at least one member.
20. The modular lighting bar of claim 19, further comprising at least one cap dimensioned to cover an end of the at least one cylindrical recess.
21. The modular lighting bar of claim 17, wherein the at least one light recess and at least one member-receiving recess respectively further comprise symmetrically spaced pluralities of light recesses and member-receiving recesses.
22. The modular lighting bar of claim 17, wherein the mounting bar and the housing together serve as a hand rail mounting base.
23. The modular lighting bar of claim 17, wherein the supply recess is mateable with the electrical supply line in only one possible orientation.
24. The modular lighting bar of claim 17, further comprising at least one miniature light assembly including a light source enclosed in a light housing and a positive prong and a negative prong for supplying power to the light source protruding from the light housing.
25. The modular lighting bar of claim 24, wherein the light source is an LED.
26. The modular lighting bar of claim 17, composed of at least one material selected from the group consisting of metal, wood and plastic.
27. The modular lighting bar of claim 17, wherein the mounting bar and the housing include at least one section having a shape selected from the group consisting of straight and curved.
28. The modular lighting bar of claim 17, wherein the mounting bar and the housing each include at least one articulating segments.
29. A modular lighting bar, comprising:
a mounting bar having a top surface, a bottom surface, two side surfaces and two ends, and including
an internal supply recess dimensioned to receive and to orient a pair of electrical supply lines within the mounting bar in a predetermined orientation to establish a specific polarity,
at least one light recess on the bottom surface for receiving a miniature light assembly, the at least one light recess being dimensioned and positioned to receive a light assembly in only a predetermined orientation such that a positive prong and negative prong of a light assembly disposed in the at least one light recess makes electrical contact with corresponding positive and negative leads of the electrical supply lines,
a male connector at one of the two ends, and
a corresponding female connector at the other of the two ends.
30. The modular lighting bar of claim 29, further comprising means for fastening the mounting bar to a surface.
31. The modular lighting bar of claim 29, wherein the mounting bar further comprises at least one through hole extending through the mounting bar through which the modular lighting bar is fastenable to a surface.
32. The modular lighting bar of claim 29, wherein the male connector and the female connector comprise interlocking dovetail connectors.
33. The modular lighting bar of claim 29, wherein the mounting bar further comprises at least one member-receiving recess on the bottom surface dimensioned to receive an end of at least one member.
34. The modular lighting bar of claim 33, wherein the at least one member is a baluster.
35. The modular lighting bar of claim 33, wherein
the mounting bar further comprises at least one cylindrical recess on at least one of the two side surfaces of the mounting bar that internally connects to a corresponding member-receiving recess;
the at least one member-receiving recess is sufficiently wide to allow the member to pivot within the member-receiving recess; and
further comprising at least one rotating cylindrical plug disposed in the at least one cylindrical recess and having a means for securely receiving the end of the at least one member.
36. The modular lighting bar of claim 35, further comprising at least one cap dimensioned to cover an end of the at least one cylindrical recess.
37. The modular lighting bar of claim 29, further comprising at least one miniature light assembly including a light source enclosed in a light housing and a positive prong and a negative prong supplying power to the light source.
38. The modular lighting bar of claim 29, wherein the mounting bar includes at least one section that is of a shape selected from the group consisting of straight or curved.
39. The modular lighting bar of claim 29, wherein the mounting bar includes at least one articulating segment.
40. A modular lighting bar, comprising:
a mounting bar having a top surface, a bottom surface and two side surfaces, and including
an internal supply recess dimensioned to receive and to orient an electrical supply line in only one possible orientation within the mounting bar,
at least one light recess on the bottom surface for receiving a miniature light assembly, the at least one light recess dimensioned and positioned such that a positive prong and negative prong of a light assembly disposed in the at least one light recess makes electrical contact only with corresponding positive and negative leads of the electrical supply line, and
at least one member-receiving recess on the bottom surface dimensioned to receive an end of at least one member.
41. The modular lighting bar of claim 40, wherein the at least one member is a baluster.
42. The modular lighting bar of claim 40, wherein
the mounting bar further comprises at least one cylindrical recess on at least one of the two side surfaces of the mounting bar that internally connects to a corresponding member-receiving recess;
the at least one member-receiving recess is sufficiently wide to allow the member to pivot within the member-receiving recess; and
further comprising at least one rotating cylindrical plug disposed in the at least one cylindrical recess and having a means for securely receiving the end of the at least one member.
43. The modular lighting bar of claim 42, further comprising at least one cap dimensioned to cover an end of the at least one cylindrical recess.
44. The modular lighting bar of claim 40, wherein the at least one light recess and at least one member-receiving recess respectively further comprise symmetrically spaced pluralities of light recesses and member-receiving recesses.
45. The modular lighting bar of claim 40, wherein the supply recess is mateable with the electrical supply line in only one possible orientation.
46. The modular lighting bar of claim 40, further comprising at least one miniature light assembly including a light source enclosed in a light housing and a positive prong and a negative prong supplying power to the light source protruding from the light housing.
47. The modular lighting bar of claim 40, wherein the mounting bar includes at least one section that is straight or curved.
48. The modular lighting bar of claim 17, wherein the mounting bar includes at least one articulating segment.
49. A railing system including at least one modular lighting bar as in claim 1.
50. A railing system including at least one modular lighting bar as in claim 17.
51. The railing system of claim 50, wherein a pair of lighting bars comprise segments of top and bottom rails, respectively, each holding opposite ends of at least one baluster.
52. A railing system including at least one modular lighting bar as in claim 29.
53. A railing system including at least one modular lighting bar as in claim 40.
54. The railing system of claim 53, wherein a pair of lighting bars comprise segments of top and bottom rails, respectively, each holding opposite ends of at least one baluster.