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Processing system with dynamically allocatable buffer memory

  • US 6,081,883 A
  • Filed: 12/05/1997
  • Issued: 06/27/2000
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/05/1997
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A scalable computer system, comprising:

  • an interconnect bus;

    a host processor coupled to the interconnect bus; and

    one or more function-specific processors including network processor, a file processor and a storage processor, the one or more function-specific processors coupled to the interconnect bus for communicating with other processors, each function-specific processor having a buffer memory coupled thereto, the buffer memory having one or more segments which serve as function-specific caches to cache function specific data including network processing data, file processing data and storage processing data, the segments being dynamically allocatable to different processors.

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