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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 07, 2010
Filed:
Mar. 05, 2007
Tung M. Nguyen, Cupertino, CA (US);
Andrew Spray, San Jose, CA (US);
Jean-christophe Hugly, Mountain View, CA (US);
James M. Mott, Austin, TX (US);
Tung M. Nguyen, Cupertino, CA (US);
Andrew Spray, San Jose, CA (US);
Jean-Christophe Hugly, Mountain View, CA (US);
James M. Mott, Austin, TX (US);
Panta Systems, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
An embodiment of the present invention is directed to an apparatus for sharing memory among a plurality of compute nodes. The apparatus includes a memory, a plurality of interfaces for coupling the apparatus with the compute nodes, a switching fabric coupled with the interfaces, and a processor coupled with the switching fabric and the memory. The processor is operable to assign a portion of the memory to a particular compute node for exclusive access by the particular compute node.