Patent 7194660 was granted and assigned to Newisys on March, 2007 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A basic input/output system (BIOS) for use in a computer system having a plurality of processors is described. The BIOS is embodied in a computer readable medium as computer program instructions which are operable to facilitate substantially simultaneous operation of the plurality of processors. According to one embodiment, the processors are simultaneously enabled to test of different portions of the system memory.