DOWNLOADABLE COMPUTER SOFTWARE PROVIDING ABSTRACTED

Brand	Owner	Address	Description
MESOS	THE APACHE SOFTWARE FOUNDATION	1000 N. West Street, Suite 1200 Wilmington DE 19801	Downloadable computer software providing abstracted management of CPU, memory, and compute resources away from physical and virtual machines for enabling fault-tolerant and elastic distributed systems to be managed separately from the machines;
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Technical Examples

There is disclosed an apparatus for controlling a physical layer interface of a network interface card. The apparatus comprises: 1) a read only memory (ROM) for storing an embedded control program; 2) a random access memory for storing a downloadable software control program; and 3) a microcontroller for controlling the physical layer interface, wherein the microcontroller in a first operating mode executes the embedded control program to thereby control the physical layer interface, and wherein the microcontroller in a second operating mode downloads the downloadable software control program from an external processing system and executes the software control program in place of the embedded control program to thereby control the physical layer interface.