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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 25, 2004
Filed:
Aug. 31, 2000
Ramkrishna V. Prakash, Houston, TX (US);
Sompong P. Olarig, Cypress, TX (US);
William F. Whiteman, Cypress, TX (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A new technique for transferring data between nodes of a clustered computing system is disclosed. In one aspect, the invention includes a cluster node comprising a system bus; a memory device; and an internodal interconnect. The internodal interconnect is electrically connected to the system bus and includes a remote connection port. The internodal interconnect is capable of transferring data from the memory device and through the remote connection port. In a second aspect, a the invention includes method for internodal data transfer in a clustered computing system. Each of at least two clusters includes an internodal interconnect electrically connected to a system bus and a memory device to the system bus. The method itself comprises requesting a data transfer and then transferring the requested data. The requested data is transferred from the memory device in a first cluster node to the memory device in a second cluster node via the internodal interconnects in the first and second cluster nodes.