TidalScale Assigned Patent

TidalScale, Inc., Los Gatos, CA has been assigned a patent (11487451) developed by Reed, David P., Needham, MA, and Nassi, Isaac R., Los Gatos, CA, for a “fast restart of large memory systems.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Utilizing a storage replica data structure includes receiving, at a hyper-kernel running on a computing node in a plurality of interconnected computing nodes, an indication of an operation pertaining to at least one of a guest physical memory address or a stable storage address. A guest operating system is run on a virtual environment that is defined by a set of hyper-kernels running on the plurality of interconnected computing nodes. It further includes updating a storage replica data structure. The storage replica data structure comprises a set of entries. The set of entries in the storage replica data structure comprises associations among guest physical memory addresses, physical memory addresses, and stable storage addresses.”

The patent application was filed on 2022-03-09 (17/690940).