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| 20080270572 | Scalable computing apparatus - Disclosed are scalable computing pods that may be embodied in trailers, storage containers, or other portable structures that optimize computing, power, cooling and building infrastructure. The pods integrate required power and cooling infrastructure to provide a standalone turnkey computing solution. A user connects the pod to utility AC power and a data pipe. The scalable computing pods utilize liquid cooling, eliminate coolant conversions, and eliminate unnecessary power conversion to drastically improve efficiency. | 10-30-2008 |
| 20090094418 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ACHIEVING CACHE COHERENCY WITHIN MULTIPROCESSOR COMPUTER SYSTEM - An embodiment of a multiprocessor computer system comprises main memory, a remote processor capable of accessing the main memory, a remote cache device operative to store accesses by said remote processor to said main memory, and a filter tag cache device associated with the main memory. The filter cache device is operative to store information relating to remote ownership of data in the main memory including ownership by the remote processor. The filter cache device is operative to selectively invalidate filter tag cache entries when space is required in the filter tag cache device for new cache entries. The remote cache device is responsive to events indicating that a cache entry has low value to the remote processor to send a hint to the filter tag cache device. The filter tag cache device is responsive to a hint in selecting a filter tag cache entry to invalidate. | 04-09-2009 |
| 20110129225 | Optical Polymorphic Computer Systems - Embodiments of the present invention are directed to high-bandwidth, low-latency optical fabrics for broadcasting between nodes. In one embodiment, an optical fabric includes an optical communication path optically coupled to a broadcasting node and optically coupled to one or more broadcast receiving nodes. The optical fabric also includes a first optical element optically coupled to the optical communication path and configured to broadcast an optical signal generated by the broadcasting nodes onto the optical communication path, and one or more optical elements optically coupled to the optical communication path and configured to divert a portion the broadcast optical signal onto each of the one or more receiving nodes. | 06-02-2011 |
| 20110179423 | MANAGING LATENCIES IN A MULTIPROCESSOR INTERCONNECT - In a computing system having a plurality of transaction source nodes issuing transactions into a switching fabric, an underserviced node notifies source nodes in the system that it needs additional system bandwidth to timely complete an ongoing transaction. The notified nodes continue to process already started transactions to completion, but stop the introduction of new traffic into the fabric until such time as the underserviced node indicates that it has progressed to a preselected point. | 07-21-2011 |
| 20110280513 | OPTICAL CONNECTOR INTERCONNECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method for connecting adjacent computing board devices. A source computing board may be provided. An optical engine attaches to the source computing board. A plurality of source optical connectors couples to the optical engine. A first optical connector may be positioned at a location on the source computing board for a first preset type of computing component on an adjacent computing board. A second optical connector may be positioned at a fixed coordinate related to the first optical connector on the source computing board. | 11-17-2011 |
| 20120020663 | BUS-BASED SCALABLE OPTICAL FABRICS - Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to arrangements of multiple optical buses to create scalable optical interconnect fabrics for computer systems. In one aspect, a multi-bus fabric ( | 01-26-2012 |
| 20130286825 | FEED-FORWARD ARBITRATION - Feed-forward arbitration is disclosed. An example method of feed-forward arbitration includes determining an aggregated measure of urgency of packets waiting in a queue. The method also includes sending the aggregated measure to switching node arbiters along the path that an urgent packet will take, to reduce backpressure along a path of an urgent packet by biasing arbiters in favor of the packet | 10-31-2013 |
| 20140250274 | MAPPING PERSISTENT STORAGE - A computer apparatus and related method to access storage is provided. In one aspect, a controller maps an address range of a data block of storage into an accessible memory address range of at least one of a plurality of processors, in a further aspect, the controller ensures that copies of the data block cached in a plurality of memories by a plurality of processors are consistent. | 09-04-2014 |
| 20150081982 | SHIELDING A MEMORY DEVICE - A method of shielding a memory device ( | 03-19-2015 |
