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US08132038B2 System and method for calibrating a time of day (TOD) clock in a computing system node provided in a multi-node network 有权
用于校准在多节点网络中提供的计算系统节点中的时间(TOD)时钟的系统和方法

System and method for calibrating a time of day (TOD) clock in a computing system node provided in a multi-node network
Abstract:
A system, method and computer program product for calibrating a Time Of Day (TOD)-clock in a computing system node provided in a multi-node network. The network comprises an infrastructure of computing devices each having a physical clock providing a time base for executing operations that is stepped to a common oscillator. The system implements steps for obtaining samples of timing values of a computing device in the network, the values including a physical clock value maintained at that device and a TOD-offset value; computing an oscillator skew value from the samples; setting a fine steering rate value as equal to the opposite of the computed oscillator skew value; and, utilizing the fine steering rate value to adjust the physical clock value and correct for potential oscillator skew errors occurring in the oscillator crystal at the computing device.
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