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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 17, 1999
Filed:
Aug. 29, 1997
Kenneth Frank Dove, Tigard, OR (US);
Darin Jon Perrigo, Seattle, WA (US);
Robert Bruce Gage, Beaverton, OR (US);
Sequent Computer Systems, Inc., Beaverton, OR (US);
Abstract
An apparatus and method for initializing a shared-memory, multinode multiprocessor computer system. The nodes in the multiprocessor computer system separately and independently run standard PC-based BIOS routines in parallel for initialization of the nodes. These BIOS routines set addresses of hardware components on each node as though the nodes are in a single-node environment. After completion of BIOS, the addresses of the hardware components are reprogrammed to conform with the multinode environment. A master processor then takes control to boot the operating system on the multinode environment.