Electrical computers and digital processing systems: memory – Storage accessing and control – Shared memory area
Patent
1996-11-22
2000-11-14
Swann, Tod R.
Electrical computers and digital processing systems: memory
Storage accessing and control
Shared memory area
711100, 711201, 711202, 711203, G06F 1208
Patent
active
06148377&
ABSTRACT:
Distributed shared memory systems and processes that can connect into each node of a computer network to encapsulate the memory management operations of the connected nodes and to provide thereby an abstraction of a shared virtual memory that can span across each node of the network and that optionally spans across each memory device connected to the computer network. Accordingly, each node on the network having the distributed shared memory system of the invention can access the shared memory.
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Abraham William
Carter John B.
Davis Scott H.
Dietterich Daniel J.
Frank Steven J.
Mangosoft Corporation
Ransom David Bryan
Swann Tod R.
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