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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 2016
Filed:
Oct. 07, 2011
Applicants:
Gary Gostin, Plano, TX (US);
Craig Warner, Coppell, TX (US);
John W Bockhaus, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Inventors:
Gary Gostin, Plano, TX (US);
Craig Warner, Coppell, TX (US);
John W Bockhaus, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP, Houston, TX (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/02 (2006.01); G06F 12/08 (2006.01); G06F 12/06 (2006.01); G06F 13/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/06 (2013.01); G06F 12/0223 (2013.01); G06F 12/0802 (2013.01); G06F 12/0815 (2013.01); G06F 12/0873 (2013.01); G06F 13/16 (2013.01); G06F 2212/2024 (2013.01);
Abstract
A computer apparatus and related method to access storage is provided. In one aspect, a controller maps an address range of a data block of storage into an accessible memory address range of at least one of a plurality of processors. In a further aspect, the controller ensures that copies of the data block cached in a plurality of memories by a plurality of processors are consistent.