The method of downhole hydraulicking of mineral resources consists in sinking main holes, fitting the main holes with casings down to a depth below a lower boundary of a pay-out bed, installing an apparatus for hydraulicking mineral resources in each main hole, breaking rock and forming cavities in a bedrock by a jet from a monitor provided in the apparatus for hydraulicking mineral resources. Auxiliary holes are sunk each above a face of each cavity, using a drilling tool, down to the cavity so...

Electricity generation, hydrogen gas production, and methanol production are combined in an integrated system and process for recovering both energy and chemical values from a geothermal resource. Electricity is generated by turbines run by the heated pressurized gas stream emerging from the resource, and the electricity is then used in an electrolysis unit which converts water, optionally condensed from the resource gas, to hydrogen gas, which is then reacted with the carbon oxides in the resou...

A method of downhole hydraulicking mineral resources includes production panels being laid out at a deposit, holes being sunk in a longitudinal axis of each production panel, and device for hydraulicking mineral resources, comprising a monitor and a means of lifting pulp to the surface, being lowered into each of the holes. A mineral is broken hydraulically by a jet from the monitor, and the monitor jet being displaced at least once in a horizontal plane within confines of a main sector extendin...

An improved scheduling system is effective to schedule resources in a resource constrained environment. The first step in the process is initialization wherein the set of requests to be scheduled and the processing controls are input to the system. A primary sort is done to determine the order of request processing according to an "importance" ranking. Next, the feasible segments are determined. This determination defines the times where the request could conceivably be scheduled with respect to...

A method for allocating access to a shared limited resource among a plurality of users who require access to the resource, the allocation being made such that each user is granted access to the resource at a minimum guaranteed rate associated with each user and such that the resource is available for use by any user exceeding its minimum guaranteed rate only if the resource is available, the method comprising the steps of: assigning tokens to each user at a rate determined by the minimum guarant...

A method and system for allocating at least one resource among a plurality of processes. The method includes the computer-implemented steps of displaying a representation of a proportion of the resource that is allocated to a first process on a display and, in response to manipulating the representation, dynamically changing the proportion of the resource that is allocated to the first process.

A computer processor includes a number of register pairs LOCKADDR/LOCKCOUNT. In each pair, the LOCKADDR/LOCKCOUNT register is to hold a value that identifies a lock for a computer resource. When a lock instruction issues, the corresponding LOCKCOUNT register is incremented. When an unlock instruction issues, the corresponding LOCKCOUNT register is decremented. The lock is freed when a count associated with the LOCKCOUNT register is decremented to zero. This scheme provides fast locking and unloc...

A communicator (10) includes a plurality of reconfigurable resource units (13) that can each be dynamically altered to perform any of a multitude of processing tasks. A controller (16) determines a plurality of processing tasks to be supported by the communicator (10) and configures the plurality of reconfigurable resource units (13) accordingly. A memory (18) stores a library of configuration files for use by the controller (16) in configuring the plurality of reconfigurable resource units (13)...

In an FPGA having a hierarchical routing structure, additional routing lines are provided which have different destinations for different cells within a block. A pattern is chosen which allows signal lines to turn corners conveniently. In one embodiment having cells arranged into 4.times.4 blocks, cells on the diagonal of a block generate signals which are provided to switches which form one boundary of the block.

A data communicating device, having a number of inputs whereat data is received for communication from one of a number of outputs of the device, includes apparatus for providing two levels of arbitration to select one of the inputs for data communication to an output. The first (lower) level of arbitration bases selection upon a round-robin order; the second (higher) arbitration level selects inputs based upon an indication from an input of an undue wait for access to the output over a period of...