Patent ID: 8887115

Claim:
An assigning method comprising: calculating, by a computer, a position-dependent processing load to be caused by a process that depends on a position of a cell, for each of a plurality of cells into which a spatial area specified as a target of an analysis to be executed by two or more processing devices that are included in a first number of processing devices and synchronize for each unit of the analysis in time domain is divided; and assigning, by the computer, the plurality of cells to a second number of processing devices which are part or all of the first number of processing devices, under a condition where a criterion determined with respect to uniformity in a total processing time among processing devices used for the analysis is met, the total processing time of each individual processing device used for the analysis including a length of time to be taken for the individual processing device to execute each process depending on the position of each of one or more cells to be assigned to the individual processing device among the plurality of cells, wherein when calculating the position-dependent processing load of a cell included in an output area that is included in the spatial area and is specified as a target about which a result of the analysis is to be output, the computer includes an output load to be caused by an output process to output data, into the position-dependent processing load.