摘要:
A railroad car includes a body having a pair of side walls and at least a pair of parallel horizontal support beams extending along the side walls at substantially the same height. A movable end portion of a deck built as a lightweight composite structure may pivot with respect to the pair of support beams. A respective counterbalance apparatus is arranged between each of the pair of side walls and the movable deck portion at a location spaced apart from the pivot axis so as to provide a lifting force acting on the movable end portion to urge it to pivot upward about the pivot axis.
摘要:
A center beam railroad freight car including a cover for the lateral surfaces of the top chord of the center beam to reduce cargo damage, and wherein a bottom plate of a center sill of the car extends laterally as an inboard portion of a cargo-carrying floor.
摘要:
A method for performing timer synchronization between a first processor having a first timer and a second processor having a second timer is presented. The first processor issues to the second processor a first timer value corresponding to the current value of the first timer and the second timer compares the first timer value with a second timer value corresponding to the current value of the second timer. If the second timer value is less than the first timer value, the second processor increments the second timer value to a new second timer value equal to the first timer value. If the second timer value is greater than the first timer value, the second processor issues to the first processors the second timer value and the first processor adjusts the first timer value to be equal to the second timer value.
摘要:
A method of constructing a forwarding database for a data communications network comprising a plurality of network components and supporting at least first and second topologies having one or more common network components is described. The forwarding database includes at least first and second database structures having records including forwarding information for data destined for related network components in the respective topologies. Each database structure has a plurality of elements including a pointer to one of a succeeding element or a record including said forwarding information. The method comprises the step, performed at a constructing network component of identifying a network component common to the first and second topologies for which a record exists in the second database structure. The method further comprises the step of including a pointer from the related element in the first database structure to a corresponding element or record in the second database structure.
摘要:
A center beam railroad freight car including a cover for the lateral surfaces of the top chord of the center beam to reduce cargo damage, and wherein a bottom plate of a center sill of the car extends laterally as an inboard portion of a cargo-carrying floor.
摘要:
Systems and methods for implementing per-session load balancing of packets that increase traffic sharing and reduce systematic unequal distribution of traffic are provided by virtue of one embodiment of the present invention. A method for operating a selected router is provided that uses a load balancing algorithm that is configured to de-correlate distribution of sessions among the active paths at the selected router relative to distributions of sessions of other algorithms at other routers of said network. Packets arriving at the selected router are assigned to an output path according to the load balancing algorithm. A method of routing a packet received at a router having an associated identifier is provided. The source address and a destination address of the packet are obtained. An output path is selected according to a load balancing algorithm that uses the associated identifier, the source address, and the destination address as inputs, and the packet is routed to the output interface associated with the selected output path. A look-up table that is configured using the identifier can be used in selecting the output path. A router storing an identifier assigned to the router is provided; the identifier is used in determining per-session routing of incoming packets.
摘要:
A method of constructing a forwarding database for a data communications network comprising a plurality of network components and supporting at least first and second topologies having one or more common network components is described. The forwarding database includes at least first and second database structures having records including forwarding information for data destined for related network components in the respective topologies. Each database structure has a plurality of elements including a pointer to one of a succeeding element or a record including said forwarding information. The method comprises the step, performed at a constructing network component of identifying a network component common to the first and second topologies for which a record exists in the second database structure. The method further comprises the step of including a pointer from the related element in the first database structure to a corresponding element or record in the second database structure.
摘要:
A dynamic cache resizing mechanism permitting a non-coherent cache memory to be altered in size during the operation thereof. A cache utilization monitoring system determines whether the cache size is optimised for a particular application and environment, and if it is not, modifies a selection process to resize the cache address space. The non-coherent property of the cache is utilized to permit the change of selection process during use, and the choice of selection process may be effected to take into account the proportion of live cache entries which will remain accessible after resizing, and the proportional change in size of the cache during a resizing operation.