Patent ID: 7159012

Claim:
Computational data processing system, comprising: an assembly of networked computers in each of which is stored at least one computational application, and a data processing machine for storing computational data which is linked to the network and in communication with the computers, wherein each one of the computers comprises, stored in memory, an algorithm (ClusterNtConfig) for configuring the other computers of the network as slave computers, an executable master application for managing the tasks of each slave computer as a function of availability of the respective slave computer for assignment of computational tasks and of corresponding computational data which are stored in the storage machine, an electronic signature, and means for comparing said signature and an electronic signature of a slave computer with which it communicates so as to authorize the running of the computational application by the latter computer, wherein the execution of said configuring algorithm by one of the computers constituting a means of configuring the one of the computers as a master computer.