A method and apparatus are provided which eliminate the need for an active traffic flow control protocol to manage request transaction flow between the nodes of a directory-based, scaleable, shared-memory, multi-processor computer system. This is accomplished by determining the maximum number of requests...http://www.google.es/patents/US6141692?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatente US6141692 - Directory-based, shared-memory, scaleable multiprocessor computer system having deadlock-free transaction flow sans flow control protocol
Directory-based, shared-memory, scaleable multiprocessor computer system ...