Electrical computers and digital processing systems: memory – Storage accessing and control
Patent
1995-06-05
2000-07-11
Gossage, Glenn
Electrical computers and digital processing systems: memory
Storage accessing and control
711118, 711117, 711209, 711145, 709213, 709216, G06F 1300
Patent
active
060887583
ABSTRACT:
A digital data processing system and method with shared, distributed memory transfers data between corresponding data sets within memory. The digital data processing system includes a plurality of processing cells interconnected by a hierarchical network, at least some of the processing cells including a processor and a memory. Each memory provides storage space which is arranged in sets, with each set being capable of holding a plurality of data pages. At least one of the processing cells, as a first processing cell, includes a page distributor for determining when at least a first set in the associated memory has reached a predetermined storage commitment condition (for example, a filled condition). Under such a condition, the page distributor invokes a page-transfer element that selects a candidate processing cell from among the other processing cells and transfers one or more pages from the first set to a corresponding set in the candidate processing cell.
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Kaufman Mark A.
Oliveira Fernando
Gossage Glenn
Sun Microsystems Inc.
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