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Patent Inventor Names
Philip Murphy0
Vladimir Tamarkin0
Todd Rimmer0
Duane McCrory0
Todd Matters0
Date of Patent
November 4, 2008
0Patent Application Number
101852120
Date Filed
June 28, 2002
0Patent Primary Examiner
Patent abstract
A computer system that includes a plurality of servers, and a shared I/O subsystem coupled to each of the servers and to one or more I/O interfaces. The shared I/O subsystem services I/O requests made by two or more of the servers. Each I/O interface may couple to a network, appliance, or other device. The I/O requests serviced by the shared I/O subsystem may alternatively include software initiated or hardware initiated I/O requests. Different servers coupled to the shared I/O subsystem may use different operating systems, and each I/O interface may be used by two or more servers.
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