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Data exchanges among SMP physical partitions and I/O interfaces enterprise servers

  • US 7,757,033 B1
  • Filed: 07/12/2004
  • Issued: 07/13/2010
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/13/2004
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of communicating a packet, the method comprising:

  • converting a packet into cells within an input/output interface, each cell specifying a destination physical address corresponding to a first physical partition of a physically-partitionable symmetric multiprocessor;

    transferring each cell through a switch in accordance with the destination address; and

    forming the cells into a reconstructed packet within the first physical partition; and

    wherein the physically-partitionable symmetric multiprocessor is programmable as a selected one of a first configuration having one physical partition and a second configuration having a plurality of physical partitions.

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