发明名称 Multiprocessing computer system employing a cluster communication error reporting mechanism
摘要 In one embodiment, a multiprocessing computer system includes a plurality of nodes. The plurality of nodes may be interconnected through a global interconnect network which supports cluster communications. An initiating node may launch a request to a remote nodes memory. In the event of an error, an error status register of a system interface of the launching cluster node is set to indicate the occurrence of an error. The error may be the result of an access violation, or the result of a time-out occurrence in either the remote node or the initiating node. Various other errors may alternatively be reported. The system interface advantageously includes a plurality of error status registers, with a separate error status register provided for each processor included in the node. A process running on any of the processors of the node reads an error by issuing a transaction to a unique address, wherein the unique address is independent of the processor upon which the process is running. The unique address as well as the transaction ID indicative of the processor which is attempting to read an error status are used by the system interface to determine which of the plurality of error status registers to access.
申请公布号 US6401174(B1) 申请公布日期 2002.06.04
申请号 US19980148734 申请日期 1998.09.04
申请人 SUN MICROSYSTEMS, INC. 发明人 HAGERSTEN ERIK E.;JACKSON CHRISTOPHER J.;GUZOVSKIY ALEKSANDR;NESHEIM WILLIAM A.
分类号 G06F15/17;G06F9/46;G06F11/07;G06F12/08;G06F12/10;G06F15/16;G06F15/177;(IPC1-7):G06F12/00 主分类号 G06F15/17
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