A competitive advantage: parallelism
The scheduler is going to operate when one of the following events occurs:
a) The operator communicates through remote connection with the central system to know which petrol station to be attended next
b) A customer phones and requests one Service Order. The system suggests a time for attending the repair at the minimum cost and Mides has the possibility of negotiating with the customer a shorter term of repairing.
The scheduler works too slow to guarantee the viability of its launching in these two cases. As the response time of the scheduler should be quicker, it has been decided to parallels it.
The parallel programming consists in sharing the workload within several computers instead of only one. In this way, the system obtains a remarkable speed-up in processes that not fast enough to run