Method of operating a multi-processor system for the transfer of data between processor units

A method for minimising I/O mechanical assess operations on secondary storage devices in a data processing system having a plurality of processor units interconnected in a cluster configuration to permit each processor unit to request and obtain data that is resident only on a secondary storage devi...

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Hauptverfasser: STEPHEN PAUL MORGAN, KATALIN ANNA VERONIKA RADER, MARION LEE BLOUNT
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:A method for minimising I/O mechanical assess operations on secondary storage devices in a data processing system having a plurality of processor units interconnected in a cluster configuration to permit each processor unit to request and obtain data that is resident only on a secondary storage device of one processor unit. The method involves the steps of maintaining at each processor unit information about each copy of data that has been sent from the unit to another unit to permit a second request to the unit to be serviced by transferring a copy of the data from the main memory which is storing the data to the requesting unit rather than servicing the request with a relatively slow I/O accessing operation to a secondary storage device.