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System and method for providing an infiniband network device having a vendor-specific attribute that contains a signature of the vendor in a high-performance computing environment

US10313272B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Oracle International Corporation · US

Inventors

Dag Georg Moxnes · Oslo, NO
Line Holen · Oslo, NO
Bjørn Dag Johnsen · Oslo, NO

Key dates

Filing date	Jan 24, 2017
Grant date	Jun 4, 2019
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Nov 26, 2037

Classification

Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
CPC primaryH04L63/12
WIPO fieldDigital communication
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

System and method for providing an InfiniBand network device having a vendor-specific attribute that contains a signature of the vendor. An exemplary embodiment can provide an InfiniBand compatible network device from a vendor. The vendor can further define a subnet management attribute, where the subnet management attribute has an attribute identifier in the range of attribute identifiers reserved in the InfiniBand specification. The vendor can define a signature bit string that is a fixed number of bits in length and a number of offset bits, where the number of offset bits indicates the start of the signature bit string within the attribute. The subnet management attribute can be configured with the signature bit string starting where the offset bits indicate, and the subnet management attribute can be included as an attribute of the InfiniBand compatible network device.

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