Partitioning a memory pool among plural computing nodes

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2008-10-01

2011-12-20

Lane, John (Department: 2185)

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: memory

Storage accessing and control

Shared memory area

C711S148000, C711S153000, C711S170000, C711S173000, C709S213000, C709S214000, C709S215000, C709S216000

Reexamination Certificate

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08082400

ABSTRACT:
To share a memory pool that includes at least one physical memory in at least one of plural computing nodes of a system, firmware in management infrastructure of the system is used to partition the memory pool into memory spaces allocated to corresponding ones of at least some of the computing nodes. The firmware maps portions of the at least one physical memory to the memory spaces, where at least one of the memory spaces includes a physical memory portion from another one of the computing nodes.

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