US Patent Issued to VMWare on June 3 for "Virtual non-uniform memory access (NUMA) locality table for NUMA systems" (California, Washington, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,768, issued on June 3, was assigned to VMWare LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Virtual non-uniform memory access (NUMA) locality table for NUMA systems" was invented by Timothy Merrifield (Austin, Texas), Petr Vandrovec (Cupertino, Calif.), Xunjia Lu (Los Altos, Calif.) and James White (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various approaches for exposing a virtual Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) locality table to the guest OS of a VM running on NUMA system are provided. These approaches provide different tradeoffs between the accuracy of the virtual NUMA locality table and the ability of the system's hypervisor to migrate virtual NUMA nod...