System and method for supporting scalable representation of switch port status in a high performance computing environment. In accordance with an embodiment, a scalable representation of switch port status can be provided. By adding a scalable representation of switch port status at each switch (both physical and virtual)instead of getting all switch port changes individually, the scalable representation of switch port status can combine a number of ports that can scale by just using a few bits of information for each port's status.

System and method for supporting scalable representation of switch port status in a high performance computing environment. In accordance with an embodiment, a scalable representation of switch port status can be provided. By adding a scalable representation of switch port status at each switch (both physical and virtual)instead of getting all switch port changes individually, the scalable representation of switch port status can combine a number of ports that can scale by just using a few bits of information for each port's status.

System and method for supporting node role attributes in a high performance computing environment. In accordance with an embodiment, a node role attribute can comprise a vendor defined subnet management attribute. When a subnet manager attempts to discover a high performance computing environment, such as an InfiniBand subnet, or a switch topology, identifying a topology is quite complex when subnet manager can only observe connectivity, without context behind the connectivity (the roles of the different nodes in the connectivity). However, when a subnet has a node role attribute enabled, the subnet manager can map the interconnect more effectively as it can discover not only the connectivity during the initial sweep, but it can also discover the role of each node discovered, thus leading to a more efficient interconnect discovery.

Method and device for transmitting a signal from a first electronic component of a vehicle to at least one second electronic component of the vehicle.

The invention relates to a method for transmitting a signal from a first electronic component of a vehicle to at least one second electronic component of the vehicle, said signal being formed from a frame of a low-level network protocol and being transmitted via transceivers of a packet-switching protocol, said method comprising the following steps: receiving (41) the signal on a physical input port of a network switch; redirecting (42) a frame extracted from the received signal to an output port of the network switch on the basis of a destination address extracted from said frame; transmitting (43) a signal, generated from the frame, to the electronic component identified by the extracted destination address via said output port of the network switch to which said electronic component is connected.

The invention also relates to a network switch and a vehicle carrying this network switch.

Method and device for transmitting a signal from a first electronic component of a vehicle to at least one second electronic component of the vehicle.

The invention relates to a method for transmitting a signal from a first electronic component of a vehicle to at least one second electronic component of the vehicle, said signal being formed from a frame of a low-level network protocol and being transmitted via transceivers of a packet-switching protocol, said method comprising the following steps: receiving (41) the signal on a physical input port of a network switch; redirecting (42) a frame extracted from the received signal to an output port of the network switch on the basis of a destination address extracted from said frame; transmitting (43) a signal, generated from the frame, to the electronic component identified by the extracted destination address via said output port of the network switch to which said electronic component is connected.

The invention also relates to a network switch and a vehicle carrying this network switch.

System and method for supporting node role attributes in a high performance computing environment. In accordance with an embodiment, a node role attribute can comprise a vendor defined subnet management attribute. When a subnet manager attempts to discover a high performance computing environment, such as an InfiniBand subnet, or a switch topology, identifying a topology is quite complex when subnet manager can only observe connectivity, without context behind the connectivity (the roles of the different nodes in the connectivity). However, when a subnet has a node role attribute enabled, the subnet manager can map the interconnect more effectively as it can discover not only the connectivity during the initial sweep, but it can also discover the role of each node discovered, thus leading to a more efficient interconnect discovery.

Method and computing device performing a fabric deployment in a data center. The computing device stores a configuration file comprising first and second IPv6 base prefixes, and a fabric identifier. The computing device generates a host identifier, a fabric-wide IPv6 prefix by combining the first IPv6 base prefix and the fabric identifier, and a fabric-wide IPv6 address by combining the fabric-wide IPv6 prefix and the host identifier. The computing device determines a local node identifier and a local link identifier for a communication interface of the computing device. The computing device performs a (secure) neighbor discovery procedure for determining a remote node identifier and a remote link identifier for a communication interface of a remote computing device. The computing device generates a link IPv6 address based on the second IPv6 base prefix and at least some of: the local node and link identifiers, and the remote node and link identifiers.

System and method for providing an InfiniBand network device having a vendor-specific attribute that contains a signature of the vendor. An exemplary embodiment can provide an InfiniBand compatible network device from a vendor. The vendor can further define a subnet management attribute, where the subnet management attribute has an attribute identifier in the range of attribute identifiers reserved in the InfiniBand specification. The vendor can define a signature bit string that is a fixed number of bits in length and a number of offset bits, where the number of offset bits indicates the start of the signature bit string within the attribute. The subnet management attribute can be configured with the signature bit string starting where the offset bits indicate, and the subnet management attribute can be included as an attribute of the InfiniBand compatible network device.

A packet transmission method and device are disclosed. A first pseudo wire (PW) is established between a first node and a second node. The first node obtains a first service packet, and performs SRv6 encapsulation on the first service packet to obtain a second service packet. The second service packet includes the first service packet and information about the first PW. The first node sends the second service packet to the second node through the first PW. After receiving the second service packet, the second node performs SRv6 decapsulation on the second service packet to obtain the first service packet. An ingress PE device can perform SRv6 encapsulation on a PW service, and encapsulate PW description information and a to-be-transmitted service packet into an actually sent service packet, and an egress PE device performs SRv6 decapsulation on the service packet received through the PW to obtain the to-be-transmitted service packet.

System and method for supporting a flexible framework for extendable SMA attributes in a high performance computing environment. In accordance with an embodiment, an information attribute can provide for enhancements in a number of areas. For example, in addition to indicating which version of an interface a queried node supports, the information attribute can additionally provide a mask indicating which vendor specific SMA attributes the node supports. In this way, a subnet manager can identify a version of an interface at each node in a subnet, as well as each node's SMA attribute capabilities. In turn, this allows nodes to run different versions of an interface within a same subnet, without introducing confusion.