System and method for initializing a multinode multiprocessor co

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1997-08-29

1999-08-17

Sheikh, Ayaz R.

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: support

Digital data processing system initialization or configuration

713 2, 713100, G06F 9445

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059387653

ABSTRACT:
An apparatus and method for initializing a shared-memory, multinode multiprocessor computer system. The nodes in the multiprocessor computer system separately and independently run standard PC-based BIOS routines in parallel for initialization of the nodes. These BIOS routines set addresses of hardware components on each node as though the nodes are in a single-node environment. After completion of BIOS, the addresses of the hardware components are reprogrammed to conform with the multinode environment. A master processor then takes control to boot the operating system on the multinode environment.

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