Abstract: A method and architecture for sharing data items using a resource sharing facility with a medium level cache accessible to all of the computers which are to share and connected to the computers by fast intersystem links. The resource sharing facility also acts as an ordinary secondary storage controller and in the resource sharing facility the control information and logic is provided which is needed for the mapping of cache data to the secondary storage and vice versa.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 9, 1997
Date of Patent:
December 8, 1998
Assignee:
Openframe Corporation Ltd.
Inventors:
Tsvi Misinai, Michael Rotschild, Shmuel Alazraki, Arie Kremer