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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 17, 1997
Filed:
Dec. 12, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:
David R Kandasamy, San Ramon, CA (US);
John R Catozzi, Redondo Beach, CA (US);
Douglas W Heying, Surrey, GB;
Assignee:
NCR Corporation, Dayton, OH (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ; G06F / ; G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
395800 ; 395382 ; 395391 ; 395582 ; 39520019 ; 364D / ; 364D / ;
Abstract
A virtual processor method and apparatus for parallel computer systems that increases the level of parallelism to include multiple threads per node. If a processor node has a plurality of storage devices attached, a single thread can be allocated to each device. Similarly, if a processor node has multiple CPUs, each individual thread can utilize a different CPU. Thus, a task could potentially occupy all available hardware in the system. The result is increased system utilization and availability.