Patent ID: 8521967

Claim:
A network computing system comprising: a shared memory cloud including a plurality of disk-read-only-memories (disk-ROMs) coupled to an interconnect network suitable for memory read operations and block read/write operations, each of the disk-read-only-memories including a memory array that is read/write block accessible to access blocks of consecutive memory locations and random read memory accessible to access random memory locations; one or more processor complexes coupled to the shared memory cloud, the one or more processor complexes to read blocks of data from and write blocks of data into consecutive memory locations of one or more of the plurality of disk-ROMS to provide disk-like access to the shared memory cloud; and wherein each processor complex maps the addresses of one or more of the plurality of disk-read-only-memories into processor address spaces to provide memory read access thereto, the one or more processor complexes to read random locations of data from random memory locations of one or more of the plurality of disk-ROMS to provide main-memory-like access to the shared memory cloud.