Abstract:
A communication terminal performing protection switching in a shared mesh network is provided. The communication terminal configured to transmit and receive data traffic associated with a first working path may include a processor configured to encode, in an optical channel data unit (ODU) including the data traffic, a first operation command message to be received from a first end node, and a communicator configured to transmit the ODU to a neighboring node, in which the first end node is present in a second working path.
Abstract:
A memory access controlling device and method in a parallel processing system are disclosed. The memory access controlling device includes an optical transceiver configured to receive an optical signal including a memory access frame from an optical circuit switch (OCS), a memory access controller configured to perform a scheduling operation and a memory access control operation based on the memory access frame and transmit a memory processing instruction and memory address information to a memory controller, and the memory controller configured to perform at least one of memory data read or memory data write based on the memory processing instruction and the memory address information. The memory access controller includes a plurality of header processors and is configured to control memory processing instructions to be performed in sequential order based on connection information between each of the header processors and a target memory.
Abstract:
A system for cooperation of disaggregated computing resources interconnected through an optical circuit, and a method for cooperation of disaggregated resources are disclosed. Functional block devices such as a processor block, an accelerator block, and a memory fabric block exist at a remote location, and these three types of remote functional block devices are interconnected and interoperated in a specific program to perform a cooperative computation and processing process. Accordingly, the system shares data and information of a memory existing in each block through optical signal interconnection that provides low-latency, fast processing, and wide bandwidth, and maintains cooperation and memory coherency.
Abstract:
A scheduling method for switching including receiving an allocation request for a time slot from input nodes to which the time slot is not allocated, receiving property information of at least one of virtual output queues (VOQs) in which data received by the input nodes is stored, determining a transmission priority of the VOQs for transmission of the data stored in the VOQs based on the received property information of the VOQs, determining input nodes to which the time slot is to be allocated using outputter arbiters for output nodes corresponding to the VOQs, allocating the time slot to the determined input nodes, and updating elements used to allocate the time slot with respect to input nodes for which the allocating of the time slot is completed and output nodes for which the allocating of the time slot is completed.
Abstract:
Provided are a processing system and method for increasing memory resources. The method includes generating, by a host node, a device memory resource request and transmitting the device memory resource request to a network manager, providing, by the network manager, memory node information and connection information to the host node in response to the memory resource request, generating, by the host node, an optical link frame corresponding to the request, connecting, by the network manager, a memory node whose memory resources are available and the host node by controlling an optical switch, and communicating, by the host node and the memory node of which memory resources are available, with each other using a light signal corresponding to the optical link frame.
Abstract:
Provided are a memory access method and a server for performing the same. A memory access method performed by an optical interleaver included in a server includes receiving a request message from a requester processing engine included in the server, setting receiving buffers corresponding to different wavelengths corresponding to the number of external memory/storage devices connected to the server, multiplexing the same request message at the different wavelengths according to a wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) scheme, and transmitting the multiplexed request messages to the respective external memory/storage devices, wherein an address of a virtual memory managed by the server is separated and stored according to an interleaving scheme by a responder included in each of the external memory/storage devices.
Abstract:
Disclosed are a disaggregated data center resource management method and apparatus. A resource management method in a disaggregated data center includes receiving a resource allocation request from a client; generating allocated resource information about a computing resource and a memory resource which configure a virtual server in one rack of the data center according to the resource allocation request and optical path setting information for optical path connection of the computing resource and the memory resource; updating a resource management table for the computing resource and the memory resource; and transmitting a resource connection setting message including the allocated resource information and the optical path setting information to the computing resource and the memory resource.
Abstract:
An apparatus and method for generating a photonic frame from input packet data based on a wavelength, a space and a time and for transmitting an optical signal based on a structure of the photonic frame. The apparatus includes a classifier configured to classify input packet signals based on destination information of the packet signals, and a processor configured to generate a first frame by converting each of the classified packet signals to a photonic frame based on at least one of wavelength information and port information available for each of the packet signals.
Abstract:
A method of operating a link enhancement layer includes generating an expandable flexible flit related to a request or a response of a compute express link (CXL) transaction layer, and transmitting the expandable flexible flit to another link enhancement layer connected to the link enhancement layer. The expandable flexible flit is terminated in the other link enhancement layer.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for allocating a memory address in a resource-centric network are disclosed. The method of allocating a memory address may include receiving a request for a new service, determining whether the new service is able to be accommodated in a virtual memory that is pre-allocated in a resource-centric network, when the new service is able to be accommodated, allocating a memory area for accommodating the new service to the virtual memory, and when the new service is not able to be accommodated, allocating the memory area by using an additionally allocated area of a virtual memory of the resource-centric network.