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Low latency communication via memory windows

US8260969B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateFeb 2, 2010
Grant dateSep 4, 2012
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Expiry dateFeb 2, 2030

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04L61/25
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A high performance computer system has compute nodes interconnected by an inter-node communication network. The compute nodes include local packetized interconnects. Shared memory between compute nodes is emulated by tunneling packetized interconnect packets between the compute nodes. A memory region on one of the compute nodes is used as a window into a memory region in another compute node. Special registers may be provided to expedite remote operations on small amounts of data.

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