Patent ID: 8402259

Claim:
A method for accelerating a wake-up time of a system, the method comprising: scrubbing and making available for allocation a minimum amount of memory; executing a boot-up operation of an operating system stored on the system; and scrubbing and making available for allocation an additional amount of memory in parallel with and subsequent to the boot-up operation of the operating system, the system comprising: a plurality of memory units; a plurality of nodes, each of the plurality of nodes having a minimum node resource configuration associated therewith; a plurality of processors included in each of the plurality of nodes; a plurality of cores included in each of the plurality of processors; and a plurality of memory controllers, each of the plurality of cores interfaces with at least one of the plurality of memory controllers, each of the plurality of memory controllers controls at least one of the plurality of memory units, and the minimum node resource configuration corresponds to the minimum amount of scrubbed memory in one or more of the plurality of memory units that must be made available for allocation to a minimum number of core and processor combinations in order to activate at least one of the plurality of nodes.