Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomput – Multicomputer data transferring via shared memory – Accessing another computer's memory
Patent
1998-11-18
2000-08-22
Rinehart, Mark H.
Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomput
Multicomputer data transferring via shared memory
Accessing another computer's memory
709213, 710 27, G06F 1338, G06F 1517
Patent
active
061086940
ABSTRACT:
A memory disc sharing method in which a plurality of computers share a memory disc through a network, wherein a command in accordance with which the memory disc is accessed is received by a network interface apparatus, and when a requested computer to which a request of the command has been made is any of other computers, the command is transmitted to the any of other computers, and when the requested computer is a computer concerned, the command is stored in a memory disc command queue. The network interface apparatus retrieves the command from the memory disc command queue, and executes the processing of reading out/writing data from/to the memory disc in the computer concerned when a requesting computer from which a request of the command has been made is the computer concerned, and carries out the data transfer between the memory disc in the computer concerned and the requesting computer when the requesting computer is any of other computers.
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Fujita Hirofumi
Hayashi Takehisa
Kitano Masahiro
Murayama Hideki
Yashiro Hiroshi
Hitachi , Ltd.
Rinehart Mark H.
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