公开(公告)号：EP0447577A1

公开(公告)日：1991-09-25

申请号：EP90105102.9

申请日：1990-03-19

Applicant: TANDEM COMPUTERS INCORPORATED

Inventor： Cutts, Richard W. Jr. ,  Banton, Randall G. ,  Jewett, Douglas E. ,  Norwood, Peter C. ,  Debacker, Kenneth C. ,  Mehta, Nikhil A. ,  Allison, John David ,  Horst, Robert W.

IPC: G06F11/18

CPC classification number: G06F9/3863 ,  G06F9/3824 ,  G06F9/3851 ,  G06F9/3885 ,  G06F11/0724 ,  G06F11/0757 ,  G06F11/1008 ,  G06F11/1405 ,  G06F11/1415 ,  G06F11/1641 ,  G06F11/1658 ,  G06F11/1666 ,  G06F11/1679 ,  G06F11/1683 ,  G06F11/1687 ,  G06F11/1691 ,  G06F11/18 ,  G06F11/181 ,  G06F11/182 ,  G06F11/184 ,  G06F11/185 ,  G06F11/20 ,  G06F11/2015 ,  G06F11/2017 ,  G06F2201/85 ,  G11C29/74

Abstract: A computer system in a fault-tolerant configuration employs multiple identical CPUs executing the same instruction stream, with multiple, identical memory modules in the address space of the CPUs storing duplicates of the same data. The multiple CPUs are loosely synchronized, as by detecting events such as memory references and stalling any CPU ahead of others until all execute the function simultaneously; interrupts can be synchronized by ensuring that all CPUs implement the interrupt at the same point in their instruction stream. Memory references via the separate CPU-to-memory busses are voted at the three separate ports of each of the memory modules. I/O functions are implemented using two identical I/O busses, each of which is separately coupled to only one of the memory modules. A number of I/O processors are coupled to both I/O busses. I/O devices are accessed through a pair of identical (redundant) I/O processors, but only one is designated to actively control a given device; in case of failure of one I/O processor, however, an I/O device can be accessed by the other one without system shutdown, i.e., by merely redesignating the addresses of the registers of the I/O device under instruction control.

Abstract translation: 容错配置中的计算机系统使用执行相同指令流的多个相同的CPU，在存储相同数据的副本的CPU的地址空间中具有多个相同的存储器模块。 多个CPU松动地同步，如通过检测诸如存储器引用的事件，并使其他任何CPU停止，直到所有执行功能同时执行; 中断可以通过确保所有CPU在其指令流中的相同点实现中断来同步。 通过单独的CPU到内存总线的内存引用在每个内存模块的三个独立端口上进行投票。 使用两个相同的I / O总线实现I / O功能，每个总线单独地仅耦合到一个存储器模块。 许多I / O处理器耦合到两个I / O总线。 I / O设备通过一对相同（冗余）I / O处理器访问，但只有一个被指定为主动控制给定的设备; 然而，在一个I / O处理器发生故障的情况下，I / O设备可以被另一个I / O设备访问，而不需要系统关闭，即仅在指令控制下重新指定I / O设备的寄存器的地址。