Mapped Memory Interface for Communications between Multiple Computers

摘要

An inventive mapped memory interface product and process are provided. Theinventive product carries out the steps of transmitting an information packet between a provider and a consumer processor; using the information packet to map a portion in a shared memory to which data will be transferred from a provider processor and from which the data will be extracted via a consumer processor; using the information packet to tell the consumer processor where the data is located; directing the local memory of both the provider processor and consumer processor to the portion mapped in the shared memory; transferring data from the provider processor to the mapped portion in the shared memory; and extracting the data from the mapped portion of the shared memory and transferring it in the local memory of the consumer computer.