Collective network for computer structures
US8626957B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | May 5, 2011 |
| Grant date | Jan 7, 2014 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Dec 27, 2031 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L2001/0097
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A system and method for enabling high-speed, low-latency global collective communications among interconnected processing nodes. The global collective network optimally enables collective reduction operations to be performed during parallel algorithm operations executing in a computer structure having a plurality of the interconnected processing nodes. Router devices are included that interconnect the nodes of the network via links to facilitate performance of low-latency global processing operations at nodes of the virtual network. The global collective network may be configured to provide global barrier and interrupt functionality in asynchronous or synchronized manner. When implemented in a massively-parallel supercomputing structure, the global collective network is physically and logically partitionable according to needs of a processing algorithm.
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