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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 20, 2010
Filed:
Feb. 16, 2006
Svend Frolund, Aalborg, DK;
Arif Merchant, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Alistair Veitch, Palo Alto, CA (US);
James M. Reuter, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
James Perry Jackson, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Svend Frolund, Aalborg, DK;
Arif Merchant, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Alistair Veitch, Palo Alto, CA (US);
James M. Reuter, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
James Perry Jackson, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A unit of data is read from memory of a replicated cache. The replicated cache comprises a plurality of independent computing devices. Each independent computing device comprises a processor and a portion of the memory. Confirmations are received from at least a majority of the independent computing devices that a flush operation for the unit of data was initiated no later than a time indicated by the timestamp and that a more recent version of the unit of data has not been flushed. The unit of data is provided to storage.