Patent ID: 6687852
Filing Date: 2004-02-03
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A multi-processor system comprising:two processor platforms; and a disk platform; each of said processor platforms comprising a processor means and at least one disk drive; said disk platform comprising two disk drives and an interface for communicating with each of said processor platforms; each of said processor means comprising means for communicating with said disk platform; said disk platform for storing information in each of both disk drivers of said disk platform, said information duplicative of information stored in a disk drive of each of said processor platforms; wherein if disk drives of a processor platform fail, said disk platform has stored information to allow a processor platform to operate using the information stored in disk drives of said disk platform; wherein responsive to detection of a failure of another processor platform, by a first processor platform, said first processor platform obtains information for all active processes previously served by said another processor platform from said disk platform, and activates processes formerly served by said other processor platform; wherein said first processor platform copies data from said disk platform onto its own disks and subsequently, uses the copied data for performing processing on the activated processes.