H04Q2011/0041

TECHNIQUES TO SUPPORT MULTIPLE INTERCONNECT PROTOCOLS FOR A COMMON SET OF INTERCONNECT CONNECTORS

Embodiments may be generally direct to apparatuses, systems, method, and techniques to determine a configuration for a plurality of connectors, the configuration to associate a first interconnect protocol with a first subset of the plurality of connectors and a second interconnect protocol with a second subset of the plurality of connectors, the first interconnect protocol and the second interconnect protocol are different interconnect protocols and each comprising one of a serial link protocol, a coherent link protocol, and an accelerator link protocol, cause processing of data for communication via the first subset of the plurality of connectors in accordance with the first interconnect protocol, and cause processing of data for communication via the second subset of the plurality of connector in accordance with the second interconnect protocol.

Technologies for dynamically managing resources in disaggregated accelerators

Technologies for dynamically managing resources in disaggregated accelerators include an accelerator. The accelerator includes acceleration circuitry with multiple logic portions, each capable of executing a different workload. Additionally, the accelerator includes communication circuitry to receive a workload to be executed by a logic portion of the accelerator and a dynamic resource allocation logic unit to identify a resource utilization threshold associated with one or more shared resources of the accelerator to be used by a logic portion in the execution of the workload, limit, as a function of the resource utilization threshold, the utilization of the one or more shared resources by the logic portion as the logic portion executes the workload, and subsequently adjust the resource utilization threshold as the workload is executed. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.

Power supply for a networking device with orthogonal switch bars

Power supply for a networking device may be provided. The networking device may comprise a first plurality of switch bars each comprising a first switch type arranged parallel to one another and a second plurality of switch bars each comprising a second switch type arranged parallel to one another. The first plurality of switch bars and the second plurality of switch bars may be arranged orthogonally. A first plurality of power supplies may be fed by a first source. A second plurality of power supplies may be fed by a second source. Respective ones of a first portion of the first plurality of power supplies feed first respective pairs of the first plurality of switch bars and respective ones of a first portion of the second plurality of power supplies feed second respective pairs of the first plurality of switch bars. The first respective pairs of the first plurality of switch bars may be different from the second respective pairs of the first plurality of switch bars.

Networking device with orthogonal switch bars

A networking device with orthogonal switch bars may be provided. The networking device may comprise a first plurality of switch bars comprising leaf switches arranged parallel to one another. In addition, the networking device may comprise a second plurality of switch bars comprising top of pod switches arranged parallel to one another. Furthermore, the networking device may comprise a third plurality of switch bars comprising top of fabric switches arranged parallel to one another. The first plurality of switch bars, the second plurality of switch bars, and the third plurality of switch bars may be arranged mutually orthogonally. The first plurality of switch bars may be adjacent to and connected to the second plurality of switch bars and the second plurality of switch bars may be adjacent to and connected to the third plurality of switch bars.

OPTICAL SUBASSEMBLY
20210132305 · 2021-05-06 ·

Provided is an optical subassembly, which is compact, is easy to manufacture, and has satisfactory high-frequency characteristics. The optical subassembly includes: an eyelet including a first surface, a second surface and a plurality of through-holes; a plurality of lead terminals; a relay substrate including a lead connection surface and a first bonding surface and having first and second conductor patterns formed across the lead connection surface and the first bonding surface; a device mounting unit including a second bonding surface having formed thereon third and fourth conductor patterns; and an optical device configured to convert one of an optical signal and the differential electrical signals into the other. The first and second conductor patterns on the first bonding surface are connected to the third and fourth conductor patterns by bonding wires, respectively, and the first and second bonding surfaces have normal directions in the same direction.

TECHNOLOGIES FOR SWITCHING NETWORK TRAFFIC IN A DATA CENTER

Technologies for switching network traffic include a network switch. The network switch includes one or more processors and communication circuitry coupled to the one or more processors. The communication circuitry is capable of switching network traffic of multiple link layer protocols. Additionally, the network switch includes one or more memory devices storing instructions that, when executed, cause the network switch to receive, with the communication circuitry through an optical connection, network traffic to be forwarded, and determine a link layer protocol of the received network traffic. The instructions additionally cause the network switch to forward the network traffic as a function of the determined link layer protocol. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.

TRANSMISSION DEVICE, AND TRANSMISSION METHOD

Transmitting devices used in an optical access system in which a plurality of the transmitting devices transmit an optical burst signal to a receiving device by time division multiple access, the transmitting devices each including an arithmetic processing unit, the arithmetic processing unit including: a data signal transmission instruction unit, the a data signal transmission instruction unit that outputs a first instruction for controlling transmission processing of a data signal on the basis of a requester's instruction; an optical signal control instruction unit that outputs a second instruction for controlling output processing of an optical signal on the basis of the requester's instruction; and an instruction output adjustment unit that adjusts a timing at which the first instruction is output and a timing at which the second instruction is output.

Disaggregated physical memory resources in a data center
10917321 · 2021-02-09 · ·

Examples may include sleds for a rack in a data center including physical compute resources and memory for the physical compute resources. The memory can be disaggregated, or organized into near and far memory. A first sled can comprise the physical compute resources and a first set of physical memory resources while a second sled can comprise a second set of physical memory resources. The first set of physical memory resources can be coupled to the physical compute resources via a local interface while the second set of physical memory resources can be coupled to the physical compute resources via a fabric.

Technologies for adaptive processing of multiple buffers

Technologies for adaptive processing of multiple buffers is disclosed. A compute device may establish a buffer queue to which applications can submit buffers to be processed, such as by hashing the submitted buffers. The compute device monitors the buffer queue and determines an efficient way of processing the buffer queue based on the number of buffers present. The compute device may process the buffers serially with a single processor core of the compute device or may process the buffers in parallel with single-instruction, multiple data (SIMD) instructions. The compute device may determine which method to use based on a comparison of the throughput of serially processing the buffers as compared to parallel processing the buffers, which may depend on the number of buffers in the buffer queue.

VARIABLE EQUALIZER AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING VARIABLE EQUALIZER
20210058684 · 2021-02-25 · ·

In order to realize a variable equalizer which is compact and has a wide range of tilt level adjustment, this variable equalizer is provided with a first optical equalizer group including a plurality of first equalizers having mutually different tilt amounts, a second optical equalizer group including a plurality of second equalizers, and an optical element for forming the optical path of an optical signal so that an inputted optical signal is outputted passing through a selected first optical equalizer and a selected second optical equalizer, at least one of the plurality of second optical equalizers having a tilt amount different from any of the plurality of first optical equalizers.