I/O bus abstraction for a cluster interconnection fabric

Details I/O bus abstraction for a cluster interconnection fabric I/O bus abstraction for a cluster interconnection fabric

2006-07-25

2006-07-25

Elamin, A. (Department: 2116)

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: support

Digital data processing system initialization or configuration

C713S002000, C710S002000, C710S120000, C710S316000, C709S228000, C714S006130, C714S014000, C714S041000, C719S324000

Reexamination Certificate

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07082524

ABSTRACT:
A host is coupled to a cluster interconnection fabric which includes a fabric-attached I/O controller. The host includes a processor, a memory coupled to the processor and an operating system. The operating system includes a kernel and a fabric bus driver to provide an I/O bus abstraction to the kernel for the cluster interconnection fabric. The fabric bus driver presents the cluster interconnection fabric to the kernel as a local I/O bus, and presents the fabric-attached I/O controller to the kernel as a local I/O controller attached to a local I/O bus.

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