Hewlett-Packard Development Company,L.P.

Patent application number	Title	Published
Hewlett-Packard Development Company,L.P. Patent applications
20100042800	Method and System for Managing Heap Across Process Replication - A method and system for dynamically allocating memory, the method comprising maintaining a record of allocated memory that should be considered free in a child process, and designating as free any copy of memory identified by the record and created in a forking process.	02-18-2010
20090248948	System and Method for A Distributed Crossbar Network Using a Plurality of Crossbars - A system and method for single hop, processor-to-processor communication in a multiprocessing system over a plurality of crossbars are disclosed. Briefly described, one embodiment is a multiprocessing system comprising a plurality of processors having a plurality of high-bandwidth point-to-point links; a plurality of processor clusters, each processor cluster having a predefined number of the processors residing therein; and a plurality of crossbars, one of the crossbars coupling each of the processors of one of the plurality of processor clusters to each of the processors of another of the plurality of processor clusters, such that all processors are coupled to each of the other processors, and such that the number of crossbars is equal to [X*(X−1)/2], wherein X equals the number of processor clusters.	10-01-2009