SYSTEM RAS PROTECTION FOR UMA STYLE MEMORY
    53.
    发明申请
    SYSTEM RAS PROTECTION FOR UMA STYLE MEMORY 有权
    UMA风格记忆体的系统防护

    公开(公告)号:US20110161726A1

    公开(公告)日:2011-06-30

    申请号:US12649296

    申请日:2009-12-29

    IPC分类号: G06F11/20 G06F9/24 G06F11/00

    摘要: In some embodiments, the invention involves a system and method relating to system recovery in a fault resilient manner by isolating errors associated with the management engine (ME) UMA memory. BIOS logs errors occurring on memory within the system. The ME UMA is invisible to the host OS, so the OS will not be notified about the errors occurring in the ME UMA range. When an error threshold has been reached for a memory unit in which ME UMA resides, ME UMA data is migrated to a previously reserved backup region of memory and the ME is notified of the new ME UMA location. The faulty memory is flagged for replacement at a next maintenance cycle. Embodiments may be applied to workstations that utilize ECC memory protection which utilize AMT (Active Management Technology) and ME UMA. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

    摘要翻译: 在一些实施例中,本发明涉及通过隔离与管理引擎(ME)UMA存储器相关联的错误,以故障恢复方式与系统恢复相关的系统和方法。 BIOS记录系统内存上发生的错误。 ME UMA对于主机操作系统是不可见的,因此不会在ME UMA范围内发生错误通知操作系统。 当ME UMA存在的存储器单元达到错误阈值时,ME UMA数据被迁移到先前保留的存储器备份区域,并向ME通知新的ME UMA位置。 在下一个维护周期,标记有故障的存储器进行更换。 实施例可以应用于利用AMT(主动管理技术)和ME UMA的ECC存储器保护的工作站。 描述和要求保护其他实施例。

    System and method to establish a peer-to-peer IT backbone
    54.
    发明授权
    System and method to establish a peer-to-peer IT backbone 失效
    建立对等IT骨干网的系统和方法

    公开(公告)号:US08024477B2

    公开(公告)日:2011-09-20

    申请号:US11173469

    申请日:2005-06-30

    IPC分类号: G06F15/173

    摘要: A peer-to-peer IT (Information Technology) backbone. The system includes at least one IT server and a plurality of client computers arranged in a peer-to-peer IT backbone. Each of the client computers includes an in-band processor, an out-of-band (OOB) microcontroller, and a storage device coupled to the in-band processor and OOB microcontroller. The storage device includes a reserved area for the OOB microcontroller to enable an IT-administration to push IT payloads from the at least one IT server onto the reserved area of at least one of the plurality of client computers. The IT payloads are disseminated throughout the peer-to-peer IT backbone by the OOB microcontroller of the client computers.

    摘要翻译: 对等IT(信息技术)骨干网。 该系统包括布置在对等IT骨干网中的至少一个IT服务器和多个客户端计算机。 每个客户计算机包括带内处理器,带外(OOB)微控制器和耦合到带内处理器和OOB微控制器的存储设备。 存储设备包括用于OOB微控制器的保留区域,以使得IT管理能够将来自至少一个IT服务器的IT有效载荷推送到多个客户端计算机中的至少一个客户端计算机的保留区域上。 IT负载通过客户端计算机的OOB微控制器在整个对等IT骨干网中传播。

    Multi-socket boot
    55.
    发明授权
    Multi-socket boot 有权
    多插槽启动

    公开(公告)号:US07779244B2

    公开(公告)日:2010-08-17

    申请号:US11647542

    申请日:2006-12-28

    IPC分类号: G06F15/177

    CPC分类号: G06F9/441

    摘要: In some embodiments, the invention involves a system and method to provide maximal boot-time parallelism for future multi-core, multi-node, and many-core systems. In an embodiment, the security (SEC), pre-EFI initialization (PEI), and then driver execution environment (DXE) phases are executed in parallel on multiple compute nodes (sockets) of a platform. Once the SEC/PEI/DXE phases are executed on all compute nodes having a processor, the boot device select (BDS) phase completes the boot by merging or partitioning the compute nodes based on a platform policy. Partitioned compute nodes each run their own instance of EFI. A common memory map may be generated prior to operating system (OS) launch when compute nodes are to be merged. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

    摘要翻译: 在一些实施例中,本发明涉及为将来的多核,多节点和多核系统提供最大引导时间并行性的系统和方法。 在一个实施例中,在平台的多个计算节点(套接字)上并行执行安全性(SEC),预EFI初始化(PEI)以及随后的驱动器执行环境(DXE)阶段。 一旦在具有处理器的所有计算节点上执行SEC / PEI / DXE阶段,引导设备选择(BDS)阶段通过基于平台策略合并或划分计算节点来完成引导。 分区计算节点每个运行自己的EFI实例。 在计算节点要合并时,可能会在操作系统(OS)启动之前生成公共存储器映射。 描述和要求保护其他实施例。

    High density compute center resilient booting
    56.
    发明授权
    High density compute center resilient booting 有权
    高密度计算中心弹性启动

    公开(公告)号:US07434102B2

    公开(公告)日:2008-10-07

    申请号:US11026407

    申请日:2004-12-29

    IPC分类号: G06F11/00

    摘要: A system and method to implement a resilient compute center. A plurality of processing systems is initialized. Each of the processing systems capable of operation communicates status information about its operational health to a management module responsible for managing the processing systems. The management module reinitializing any of the processing systems, if the management module determines that any of the processing systems is operating in a degraded state based on the status information communicated to the management module.

    摘要翻译: 实现弹性计算中心的系统和方法。 多个处理系统被初始化。 能够进行操作的每个处理系统将负责管理处理系统的管理模块将关于其运行状况的状态信息传达给管理模块。 如果管理模块基于传送给管理模块的状态信息来确定处理系统中的任一个处于劣化状态,则管理模块重新初始化任何处理系统。

    Method to have fault resilient booting
    57.
    发明授权
    Method to have fault resilient booting 有权
    具有故障弹性启动的方法

    公开(公告)号:US07716464B2

    公开(公告)日:2010-05-11

    申请号:US11166687

    申请日:2005-06-23

    IPC分类号: G06F9/00 G06F15/177

    CPC分类号: G06F11/0766

    摘要: A method and apparatus is described herein for fault resilient booting of a platform. Upon booting the platform, any boot routines marked are skipped. A current boot routine to be executed in a boot sequence is registered in nonvolatile memory. An attempt to execute the current boot routine is made. If the attempt is successful, the next boot entry is determined and skipped or executed, based on whether it is marked. However, if the execution fails the current boot routine is marked and, upon subsequent execution of the boot sequence, skipped.

    摘要翻译: 本文描述了一种用于平台的故障恢复启动的方法和装置。 引导平台时,会跳过标记的所有引导程序。 在引导顺序中执行的当前引导程序被登记在非易失性存储器中。 尝试执行当前的引导例程。 如果尝试成功,则根据是否标记下一个启动条目来确定并跳过或执行。 但是,如果执行失败,则会标记当前引导例程,并且在后续执行引导顺序时跳过。

    Multi-socket boot
    58.
    发明申请
    Multi-socket boot 有权
    多插槽启动

    公开(公告)号:US20080162878A1

    公开(公告)日:2008-07-03

    申请号:US11647542

    申请日:2006-12-28

    IPC分类号: G06F9/40

    CPC分类号: G06F9/441

    摘要: In some embodiments, the invention involves a system and method to provide maximal boot-time parallelism for future multi-core, multi-node, and many-core systems. In an embodiment, the security (SEC), pre-EFI initialization (PEI), and then driver execution environment (DXE) phases are executed in parallel on multiple compute nodes (sockets) of a platform. Once the SEC/PEI/DXE phases are executed on all compute nodes having a processor, the boot device select (BDS) phase completes the boot by merging or partitioning the compute nodes based on a platform policy. Partitioned compute nodes each run their own instance of EFI. A common memory map may be generated prior to operating system (OS) launch when compute nodes are to be merged. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

    摘要翻译: 在一些实施例中,本发明涉及为将来的多核,多节点和多核系统提供最大引导时间并行性的系统和方法。 在一个实施例中,在平台的多个计算节点(套接字)上并行执行安全性(SEC),预EFI初始化(PEI)以及随后的驱动器执行环境(DXE)阶段。 一旦在具有处理器的所有计算节点上执行SEC / PEI / DXE阶段,引导设备选择(BDS)阶段通过基于平台策略合并或划分计算节点来完成引导。 分区计算节点每个运行自己的EFI实例。 在计算节点要合并时,可能会在操作系统(OS)启动之前生成公共存储器映射。 描述和要求保护其他实施例。

    Management of option ROM
    59.
    发明授权
    Management of option ROM 有权
    选项ROM的管理

    公开(公告)号:US07721080B2

    公开(公告)日:2010-05-18

    申请号:US11428242

    申请日:2006-06-30

    IPC分类号: G06F9/00 G06F9/455

    CPC分类号: G06F9/4411

    摘要: Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture, wherein instructions stored in an option ROM are copied to the system memory of a computer, wherein the option ROM corresponds to a device that is coupled to the computer. A virtual machine is generated, wherein the virtual machine executes the instructions copied to the system memory to boot the device before any operating system is loaded.

    摘要翻译: 提供了一种方法,系统和制品,其中存储在选项ROM中的指令被复制到计算机的系统存储器中,其中选项ROM对应于耦合到计算机的设备。 生成虚拟机,其中虚拟机在任何操作系统加载之前执行复制到系统存储器中的引导引导设备的指令。

    MANAGEMENT OF OPTION ROM
    60.
    发明申请
    MANAGEMENT OF OPTION ROM 有权
    选择ROM的管理

    公开(公告)号:US20080005551A1

    公开(公告)日:2008-01-03

    申请号:US11428242

    申请日:2006-06-30

    IPC分类号: G06F9/00

    CPC分类号: G06F9/4411

    摘要: Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture, wherein instructions stored in an option ROM are copied to the system memory of a computer, wherein the option ROM corresponds to a device that is coupled to the computer. A virtual machine is generated, wherein the virtual machine executes the instructions copied to the system memory to boot the device before any operating system is loaded.

    摘要翻译: 提供了一种方法,系统和制品,其中存储在选项ROM中的指令被复制到计算机的系统存储器中,其中选项ROM对应于耦合到计算机的设备。 生成虚拟机,其中虚拟机在任何操作系统加载之前执行复制到系统存储器中的引导引导设备的指令。