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METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DYNAMICALLY SHARING MEMORY IN A MULTIPROCESSOR SYSTEM

  • US 20020010844A1
  • Filed: 06/10/1998
  • Published: 01/24/2002
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/10/1998
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer system having a plurality of system resources including processors, memory and I/O circuitry, the computer system comprising:

  • an interconnection mechanism for electrically interconnecting the processors, memory and I/O circuitry so that each processor has electrical access to all of the memory and at least some of the I/O circuitry;

    a software mechanism for dividing the system resources into a plurality of partitions; and

    at least one group of partitions forming a community which shares memory.

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