a multiprocessor system automatically responding to a request for executing a new program to establish an extended process that spans a plurality of processors each having resources required for the execution of the new program . initially , the extended process comprises an user process that is requesting the execution of the new program . stub processes are created as required to gain access to the object code file of the new program , to allocate a processor to execute the new program , and to initialize the allocated processor for execution for the new program .