DOE Patents title logo U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information

Title: Signaling completion of a message transfer from an origin compute node to a target compute node

Abstract

Signaling completion of a message transfer from an origin node to a target node includes: sending, by an origin DMA engine, an RTS message, the RTS message specifying an application message for transfer to the target node from the origin node; receiving, by the origin DMA engine, a remote get message containing a data descriptor for the message and a completion notification descriptor, the completion notification descriptor specifying a local memory FIFO data transfer operation for transferring data locally on the origin node; inserting, by the origin DMA engine in an injection FIFO buffer, the data descriptor followed by the completion notification descriptor; transferring, by the origin DMA engine to the target node, the message in dependence upon the data descriptor; and notifying, by the origin DMA engine, the application that transfer of the message is complete in dependence upon the completion notification descriptor.

Inventors:
 [1]
  1. Rochester, MN
Issue Date:
Research Org.:
International Business Machines Corp., Armonk, NY (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1018037
Patent Number(s):
7889657
Application Number:
11/744,296
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY)
Patent Classifications (CPCs):
G - PHYSICS G06 - COMPUTING G06F - ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
H - ELECTRICITY H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE H04L - TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
DOE Contract Number:  
B554331
Resource Type:
Patent
Resource Relation:
Patent File Date: 2007 May 04
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
97 MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING

Citation Formats

Blocksome, Michael A. Signaling completion of a message transfer from an origin compute node to a target compute node. United States: N. p., 2011. Web.
Blocksome, Michael A. Signaling completion of a message transfer from an origin compute node to a target compute node. United States.
Blocksome, Michael A. Tue . "Signaling completion of a message transfer from an origin compute node to a target compute node". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1018037.
@article{osti_1018037,
title = {Signaling completion of a message transfer from an origin compute node to a target compute node},
author = {Blocksome, Michael A},
abstractNote = {Signaling completion of a message transfer from an origin node to a target node includes: sending, by an origin DMA engine, an RTS message, the RTS message specifying an application message for transfer to the target node from the origin node; receiving, by the origin DMA engine, a remote get message containing a data descriptor for the message and a completion notification descriptor, the completion notification descriptor specifying a local memory FIFO data transfer operation for transferring data locally on the origin node; inserting, by the origin DMA engine in an injection FIFO buffer, the data descriptor followed by the completion notification descriptor; transferring, by the origin DMA engine to the target node, the message in dependence upon the data descriptor; and notifying, by the origin DMA engine, the application that transfer of the message is complete in dependence upon the completion notification descriptor.},
doi = {},
journal = {},
number = ,
volume = ,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Feb 15 00:00:00 EST 2011},
month = {Tue Feb 15 00:00:00 EST 2011}
}

Works referenced in this record:

The Blue Gene/L Supercomputer: A Hardware and Software Story
journal, May 2007