Patent classifications
H03K19/1731
Technologies for lifecycle management with remote firmware
Technologies for lifecycle management include multiple computing devices in communication with a lifecycle management server. On boot, a computing device loads a lightweight firmware boot environment. The lightweight firmware boot environment connects to the lifecycle management server and downloads one or more firmware images for controllers of the computing device. The controllers may include baseboard management controllers, network interface controllers, solid-state drive controllers, or other controllers. The lifecycle management server may select firmware images and/or versions of firmware images based on the controllers or the computing device. The computing device installs each firmware image to a controller memory device coupled to a controller, and in use, each controller accesses the firmware image in the controller memory device. The controller memory device may be a DRAM device or a high-performance byte-addressable non-volatile memory. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
Technologies for managing network statistic counters
Technologies for managing network statistic counters include a network interface controller (NIC) of a computing device configured to identify a statistic counter of and a software consumer associated with a received network packet and identify an active counter page as a function of the identified software consumer. The NIC is further configured to read a value of the statistic counter stored at a counter memory address of a corresponding counter identifier entry of the identified active counter page, increment a read value of the statistic counter, and write the incremented value of the statistic counter back to the counter memory address. Additionally, in response to detecting a notification triggering event, generating a notification message that includes a present value of the statistic counter and a present value of each of the other statistic counters of the active counter page, and transmit the generated notification message to the software consumer. Other embodiments are described herein.
Technologies for providing shared memory for accelerator sleds
Technologies for providing shared memory for accelerator sleds includes an accelerator sled to receive, with a memory controller, a memory access request from an accelerator device to access a region of memory. The request is to identify the region of memory with a logical address. Additionally, the accelerator sled is to determine from a map of logical addresses and associated physical address, the physical address associated with the region of memory. In addition, the accelerator sled is to route the memory access request to a memory device associated with the determined physical address.
Technologies for processing network packets in agent-mesh architectures
Technologies for processing network packets in an agent-mesh architecture include a network interface controller (NIC) of a computing device configured to write, by a network fabric interface of a memory fabric of the NIC, a received network packet to the memory fabric in a distributed fashion. The network fabric interface is configured to send an event message indicating the received network packet to a packet processor communicatively coupled to the memory fabric. The packet processor is configured to read, in response to having received the generated event message, at least a portion of the received network packet from the memory fabric, identify an agent of the NIC for additional processing of the received network packet, generate a network packet received event message indicating the received network packet is available for processing, and transmit the network packet received event message to the identified agent. Other embodiments are described herein.
Technologies for processing network packets by an intelligent network interface controller
Technologies for processing network packets by a network interface controller (NIC) of a computing device include a network interface, a packet processor, and a controller device of the NIC, each communicatively coupled to a memory fabric of the NIC. The packet processor is configured to receive an event message from the memory fabric and transmit a message to the controller device, wherein the message indicates the network packet has been received and includes the memory fabric location pointer. The controller device is configured to fetch at least a portion of the received network packet from the memory fabric, write an inbound descriptor usable by one or more on-die cores of the NIC to perform an operation on the fetched portion, and restructure the network packet as a function of an outbound descriptor written by the on-die cores subsequent to performing the operation. Other embodiments are described herein.
Technologies for secure encrypted external memory for field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAS)
Technologies for encrypted data access by field-programmable gate array (FPGA) user kernels include a computing device having an FPGA and an external memory device accessible by the FPGA. The FPGA includes a secure key store, a micro-encryption engine, and multiple slots for user kernels that are each identifiable with an index. A user kernel is programmed at an index and a symmetric encryption key is provisioned to the secure key store at the index. The micro encryption engine may read encrypted data from the external memory device, decrypt the encrypted data with the key associated with the index of the user kernel, and forward plain text data to the user kernel. The micro encryption engine may also receive plain text data from the user kernel, encrypt the plain text data with the key, and write the encrypted data to the external memory device. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
TECHNOLOGIES FOR MONITORING NODE CLUSTER HEALTH
Technologies for monitoring node cluster health include a plurality of managed nodes of anode cluster communicatively coupled across a data network to a resource manager server. The resource manager server is configured to receive health data, via an out-of-band network, from each of the managed nodes of the node cluster. The resource manager server is further configured to identify whether a managed node of the plurality of managed nodes has indicated a failure, determine a cause of the failure, and classify the failure as being one of a soft failure or a hard failure as a function of the received health data and the cause of the failure. Additionally, the resource manager server is configured to transmit a health state change event to each of the other managed nodes of the plurality of managed nodes of the node cluster. Other embodiments are described herein.
Technologies for a high-ratio compression accelerator with heterogeneous history buffers
Technologies for high-ratio compression with heterogeneous history buffers include a computing device having an accelerator complex with a large history buffer and a small history buffer. The large history buffer has a larger size than the small history buffer. For example, the small history buffer may be 32 kilobytes and the large history buffer may be 64 kilobytes, 1 megabyte, or larger. The large history buffer is coupled to a large-buffer compare core that searches for matches in the large history buffer, finds a best match, and forwards the best match to a small-buffer compare core. The small-buffer compare core searches the small history buffer for matches, receives the match forwarded from the large-buffer compare core, and determines a best match from the matches in the small history buffer and the forwarded match. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
Technologies for big data analytics accelerator
Technologies for database acceleration include a computing device having a database accelerator. The database accelerator performs a decompress operation on one or more compressed elements of a compressed database to generate one or more decompressed elements. After decompression of the compressed elements, the database accelerator prepares the one or more decompressed elements to generate one or more prepared elements to be processed by an accelerated filter. The database accelerator then performs the accelerated filter on the one or more prepared elements to generate one or more output elements. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
Technology mapping method of an FPGA
A technology mapping method for a FPGA includes converting a gate level netlist into an AND-Inverter Graph (AIG) netlist, selecting a node among nodes included in the AIG netlist, generating a cut set including one or more cuts corresponding to the selected node, selecting a best cut by sorting the cuts included in the cut set according to predetermined criteria and outputting a LUT netlist including the best cut, wherein the predetermined criteria include a maximum difference of levels of sub-cuts connected in each cut as a first criterion.