Patent ID: 7017065

Claim:
An information processing system comprising: a plurality of information processing mechanisms that are coupled to each other; a merge mechanism that merges processing results supplied from said information processing mechanisms; and a control mechanism that controls operations of said information processing mechanisms; each of said plurality of information processing mechanisms including a counter for synchronization purpose and processing means, the counter for synchronization purpose being adapted to count the number of synchronization clocks that are used to determine a starting point of operation for the processing that the local information processing mechanism should perform, the processing means being for carrying out a desired processing based on the measured value obtained by the counter for synchronization purpose; said control mechanism being for simultaneously providing a trigger of measurement of the synchronization clocks to all counters for synchronization purpose included in said information processing mechanisms, and for individually providing a reset signal to the counters for synchronization purpose, the reset signal being for initializing the measured value obtained by the counters for synchronization purpose; and said merge mechanism being for merging the processing results according to the unit of output that is determined based on the type of an information output mechanism for producing the processing results.