Patent ID: 8806276

Claim:
A control system for driving a data processing apparatus, the system comprising: data processing apparatuses that process data; a data transfer apparatus that include control units to control communication between the data processing apparatuses and include a processing apparatus information sending unit that sends, when the control unit fails, a piece of processing apparatus information corresponding to the data processing apparatus under control of the failed control unit from among pieces of processing apparatus information uniquely attached respectively to the data processing apparatuses to a system control apparatus; and the system control apparatus that includes a stop command sending unit that determines to which of partitions that logically divide the system the data processing apparatus corresponding to the piece of processing apparatus information received from the data transfer apparatus belongs, the stop command sending unit sending a stop command to stop driving of the data processing apparatus belonging to the determined partition, wherein the control unit performs priority control of communication between the data transfer apparatus and each of the data processing apparatuses, and performs priority control of communication between the data transfer apparatuses, wherein the control unit includes first control units and a second control unit, the first control units control communication between each data processing apparatus connected to the data transfer apparatus and the data transfer apparatus, and the second control unit is connected to the first control units to control communication with data transfer apparatuses other than the data transfer apparatuses, wherein the data transfer apparatus further includes an error report unit that typically sends an error signal received from a failure checker of the first control units to a register update unit and that typically sends the ID of the second control unit and the ID of the data processing apparatus containing applicability information indicating whether the ID of the data processing apparatus is valid to a system control apparatus.