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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 04, 2003
Filed:
Sep. 29, 1999
Russell Jay Anderson, Lakeville, MN (US);
Martin M. Deneroff, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Stephen Whitney, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A distributed shared memory multiprocessor computer system is provided, which has a number of processors and is divided into partitions. Each partition has within it one or more of the processors, and may also have memory or cache and other related hardware. Although each partition works together and communicates with other partitions to share computational load, the partitions each are independently operable and execute an independent copy of the operating system. The partitions comprise additional features to enable removal of a partition from the operating computer system, and to enable insertion of hardware into the operating computer system.