Intel Corporation

Bruce Schlobohm

Ashok Raj

Anil Aggarwal

Rajesh R Shah

Oscar P Pinto

Arjan Van De Ven

William H Swortwood

Jenlong Wang

Fenghua Yu

Hungjen (Sean) Yang

Various systems and methods for authenticating a user are described herein. A system to includes a biometric scanner to scan an input sequence of biometric identifiers; a storage device to store a biometric identifier database; an input module to receive the input sequence of biometric identifiers; an access module to access the biometric identifier database and retrieve a secret sequence of biometric identifiers; a comparator module to compare the input sequence of biometric identifiers to the secret sequence of biometric identifiers to obtain a result; and an authorization module to, based on the result, allow access to a resource provided by the system.

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A mechanism is provided at a host system to allow multiple entities (clients) to send and receive messages of a particular class of management services in a switched fabric for scalable solutions.

Mechanism for allowing multiple entities on the same host to handle messages of same service class in a cluster

A system, method and computer program to detect and recover from a communications failure in a computer network. The computer network has several nodes which include processor-based systems, input/output controllers and network controllers. Each node has a cluster adapter connected to multiple port switches through communications links. Data is transmitted through among the nodes through the communications links in the form of packets. A fabric manager module will monitor the network and detect a link failure. Upon the detection of a link failure between two switches a spanning tree partitioning module will partition the network into two trees at the point of the link failure. Thereafter, a link and switch identification module will identify a link between the two trees that can replace the failed link and has the least impact on the network. A routing table calculation algorithm module will calculate a new routing and distance table based on the identified link. The fabric manager module will then download the routing and distance table to only those switches effected by the new link selected to replace the failed link. This identification and recovery from communications link failures may be done with little overhead and without taking the network offline.

System and multi-thread method to manage a fault tolerant computer switching cluster using a spanning tree

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