International Business Machines Corporation

Joseph John McGill, Iv

Guy L Guthrie

Derek E Williams

Bernard Charles Drerup

Alexander Michael Taft

The present disclosure may include a processor that uses idle caches as a backing store for a boot code. The processor designates a boot core and an active cache from a plurality of cores and a plurality of caches. The processor configures remaining caches from the plurality of caches to act as a backing store memory. The processor modifies the active cache to convert cast outs to a system memory into lateral cast outs to the backing store memory. The processor copies a boot image to the backing store memory and executes the boot image by the boot core.

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Joseph John McGill, Iv