Patent ID: 6671823
Filing Date: 2003-12-30
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A multi-processor system comprising:at least three processor platforms; and at least one disk platform; each of said processor platforms comprising a processor and at least one disk drive; each of said at least one disk platforms comprising: an interface for communicating with at least two processor platforms; and two disk drives; each of said processor platforms for communicating information for updating its own disk drives to at least one of said disk platforms for storage in both disk drives of said at least one disk platform; said at least one disk platform for storing all disk information for all active processes; said disk platform for providing information in a case of a processor platform failure to other processor platforms for processes that the other processor platforms take over from the failed processor platform; wherein said disk platform further provides to a processor platform whose disk drives have failed, information to substitute for information stored in said failed disk drives.