Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Microsoft Corporation

Alexey Pakhunov

Suyash Sinha

Ajith Jayamohan

Stephen Francis Heil

A subject disclosure is directed towards emulating a data network interface for operating an interconnect controller in accordance with a networking standard. The emulated data network interface provides address resolution data associated with a destination, within a converged interconnect fabric, for application data. The address resolution data identifies a communication path that is compatible with the interconnect controller. The application data conforms to the networking standard. The emulated data network interface instructs the interconnect controller to route the application data to the destination via the compatible communication path.

Providing network capability over a converged interconnect fabric

Technologies pertaining to cluster-on-chip computing environments are described herein. More particularly, mechanisms for supporting message passing in such environments are described herein, where cluster-on-chip computing environments do not support hardware cache coherency.

Message passing in a cluster-on-chip computing environment

One or more hints can be presented during the entry of protected information. Traditionally, for security reasons, the protected information is displayed as ambiguous characters, hindering the ability to determine if there was an error inputting the information. A hash can be calculated from some or all of the protected information already input, and the resulting hash value can be used to select a hint. The hints can be selected from a relatively small number of easily distinguishable hints, including visual, auditory and sensory hints, or any combination thereof. The hints are not a globally unique identifier of the protected information and can, instead, be used to detect a deviation from the correct entry of the protected information.

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Alexey Pakhunov