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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:
Sep. 29, 2009
Filed:
Jan. 26, 2006
Applicant:
Kai C. Wong, Saratoga, CA (US);
Inventor:
Kai C. Wong, Saratoga, CA (US);
Assignee:
Symantec Operating Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
In one embodiment, a virtual NUMA system may be formed from multiple computer systems coupled to a network such as InfiniBand, Ethernet, etc. Each computer includes one or more software modules which present the resources of the computers as a virtual NUMA machine. A single instance of a guest operating system executes on the virtual NUMA machine. The guest operating system is designed to execute on a NUMA system and executes without modification on the virtual machine. The memory model of the virtual NUMA machine includes a single writer, multiple reader memory model.