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

Patent ·
OSTI ID:1018037

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.

Research Organization:
International Business Machines Corp., Armonk, NY (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
B554331
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY)
Patent Number(s):
7,889,657
Application Number:
11/744,296
OSTI ID:
1018037
Resource Relation:
Patent File Date: 2007 May 04
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

References (1)

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