Local processors

14:31 Oct 31, 2022 

@daryo
"we have NO IDEA whatsoever of the overall architecture of this "control system", of the hardware and software involved."
Oui, c'est aussi ce que j'ai dit, donc nous sommes d'accord :)

PRESUMING that these "processors" are CPUs in a Windows OS looks to me like a rather rush assumption.
À aucun moment, je n'ai parlé de Windows. En outre, les processeurs, on en trouve partout, même dans les machines à laver (ici, les turbines à vapeur, apparemment).

Faute de mieux, et d'une manière ou d'une autre, il faut bien le traduire, il ne reste que la traduction littérale, comme l'a proposé FPC, qui permet de "respecter" le texte sans se mouiller.

Have a good day

10:48 Oct 30, 2022 

Processors are processing units, but not always central processing units; they can also be distributed processing units.

See:

A distributed system is a system whose components are located on different networked computers, which communicate and coordinate their actions by passing messages to one another from any system. …
The terms are nowadays used in a much wider sense, even referring to autonomous processes that run on the same physical computer and interact with each other by message passing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_computing

A distributed control system (DCS) is a computerised control system for a process or plant usually with many control loops, in which autonomous controllers are distributed throughout the system, but there is no central operator supervisory control.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_control_system

Why are you insisting on Windosws OS? What about Linux OS? The operating system is secondary.

23:23 Oct 28, 2022 

we have NO IDEA whatsoever of the overall architecture of this "control system", of the hardware and software involved.

PRESUMING that these "processors" are CPUs in a Windows OS looks to me like a rather rush assumption.

18:35 Oct 28, 2022 

Peut-être faudrait-il voir la chose comme un processeur principal (et non distant) et des processeurs locaux (sans doute sur une même carte mais physiquement séparés), locaux au sens où ils seraient dédiés à exécuter des instructions particulières afin d'accélérer un processus global. Bref, une puce principale (CPU?) et des puces secondaires (LPU?) auxquelles on délègue des tâches précises.
De toute façon, il est difficile de se prononcer sans plus de précision, toutes les opinions sont donc valables et je rejoins FPC dans son commentaire de 11h38 (l'ambiguité).

16:29 Oct 28, 2022 

Ok, sorry I don't mean to dismiss legitimate questions about the architecture of the system, but the point is, whatever they are and wherever they are located if they're called "local" they can be translated as "locaux". Unless as said there's some other compelling characteristic that calls for a different adjective. Even the English doesn't not tell us much about them except that they're "local" in some sense. I don't know, you're probably right that local and main seem to be located on the same unit, so it sounds odd perhaps.

15:29 Oct 28, 2022 

I don't think you should so readily dismiss my question — at a level above 'simplistic', the way we look at 'local' vs. remote' in FR can throw up some curiosities that need careful unravelling.
In any case, asker's ontext here is even more special than that; note their coment below "this is an equipment I/O module; it contains a data interface board; main processor; and local processors"
So it seems that the 'main' and 'local' devices are not geographically separated, which could imply the 'local' processors are simply processing something that is considered 'local'

14:38 Oct 28, 2022 

anyway, with respect to what they're local. They can be called "locaux", "processeurs locaux" and the ambiguity is also translated but the term is correct.
https://www.ibm.com/docs/fr/developer-for-zos/9.5.1?topic=se...

14:32 Oct 28, 2022 

Hi Tony; this is an equipment I/O module; it contains a data interface board; main processor; and local processors

13:46 Oct 28, 2022 

Depends a bit on the point of view of the writer: are these 'local' processors remote with respect to the system under discussion ('overall control system') — or is the point of view from that of the equipment to which these processors are 'local'?