Multinode distributed data processing system for use in a surface vehicle

Claim 1

A multinode distributed data processing system in a surface vehicle comprising: a1. sensing means for sensing physical quantities relating to said vehicle; a2. storage node means for storing physically partioned and fixed geographical data elements; a3. data processing node means for processing said physical properties and said geographical data to generate user policy data; a4. user I/O node means for receiving request data for forwarding to any data processing node to control said processing and for controlled forwarding to a user said user policy data; a5. user input/output means interfacing said user I/O node means to user signals; a6. and network means interconnecting said node means, at least one node interfacing to said sensing means; and at least one node executing application software; said system having the following provisions: b1. a library of messageable system calls or primitives, comprising: open, close, read, write, seek, getstat, setstat, signal, creat; b2. a deterministic network control system for effecting any network transport of a primitive within a prespecified maximum time interval; b3. a message processing organization exclusively allowing processing of a message subject to completed transfer thereof as a unitary entity; b4. a state-maintaining control to keep any discourse between respective nodes over the bus stateless; b5. a distributed real-time operating system to allow coexistent running of a plurality of respective processes that share localized processing power and/or a device, and/or a sensor, I/O and/or file data.