Liqid Inc.

Henry Lee Harris

James Scott Cannata

Phillip D Clark

Sumit Puri

Bryan Schramm

Bryan Nagel

Allen R Andrews

Deployment of arrangements of computing components coupled over a communication fabric are presented herein. In one example, a method includes detecting first computing components communicatively coupled to a first communication fabric having a first communication fabric type, and detecting second computing components communicatively coupled to a second communication fabric having a second communication fabric type. The method also includes receiving user commands to form compute units among a pool of computing components comprising the first computing components and the second computing components. Based at least on the user commands, the method includes forming the compute units for use by one or more users.

Multi-protocol communication fabric control

Enhanced apparatuses, systems, and techniques are presented for coupling remote peripheral devices located at a host device, as local peripheral devices of a client device. A method includes receiving an indication of a peripheral device, located at a first computing device, that is available for data processing, and receiving a request from a second computing device to access the peripheral device. Based on the request, the method may include directing the second computing device to emulate the peripheral device as a local device installed into the second computing device, and routing data traffic from the second computing device to the first computing device for processing by the peripheral device.

Dynamic server rebalancing

Deployment of arrangements of computing components coupled over communication fabrics are presented herein. In one example, a method includes forming a compute unit to include at least a selected disaggregated computing component and at least a selected converged computing element. The selected disaggregated computing component is added to the compute unit from a pool of disaggregated computing components having a granularity comprising the disaggregated computing components arbitrarily and separately coupled to a communication fabric. The selected converged computing element is added to the compute unit from a pool of converged computing elements having a granularity comprising sets of computing components with fixed relationships to associated processors.

Formation of compute units from converged and disaggregated component pools

Composed computing systems with converged and disaggregated component pool

Enhanced apparatuses, systems, and techniques for coupling network-linked peripheral devices into host computing devices is presented. A method includes, over a network interface of a host device, obtaining an indication of a peripheral device available for associating with the host device. Based on the indication, the method includes initiating instantiation of the peripheral device into a Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) subsystem of the host device by at least emulating behavior of the peripheral device over the network interface as a PCIe peripheral device coupled locally to the host system.

Local instantiation of remote peripheral devices

Software configuration deployment techniques for disaggregated computing architectures, platforms, and systems are provided herein. In one example, a method includes presenting a user interface configured to receive instructions related to deployment of software to compute units, and receiving user selections of a software element for deployment to a compute unit comprising a processing element and a storage element. Responsive to the user selections, the method includes instructing a management processor of a communication fabric to deploy the software element for use by the compute unit by at least establishing a first partitioning in the communication fabric between the management processor and the storage element, deploying the software element to the storage element using the first partitioning, de-establishing the first partitioning, and establishing a second partitioning in the communication fabric between the processing element and the storage element comprising the software element, wherein the processing element operates using the software element.

Software deployment over communication fabrics

Deployment of arrangements of physical computing components coupled over a communication fabric are presented herein. In one example, a method includes detecting disaggregated computing components communicatively coupled to at least a first communication fabric, and detecting converged computing components communicatively coupled to a second communication fabric. The method includes forming a free pool of computing components comprising the disaggregated computing components and the converged computing components, and receiving user commands to form compute units from among computing components included in the free pool of computing components. Based at least on the user commands, the method includes forming the compute units for use by one or more users.

Software configuration deployment techniques for disaggregated computing architectures, platforms, and systems are provided herein. In one example, a method includes instructing a communication fabric to establish a first partitioning in the communication fabric between a first processor and a storage element, and deploying at least a software configuration to the storage element using the first partitioning. The method includes instructing the communication fabric to de-establish the first partitioning, and instructing the communication fabric to establish a second partitioning in the communication fabric between a second processor and the storage element comprising the software configuration, wherein the second processor operates using the boot image.

Software deployment in disaggregated computing platforms

Disaggregated computing architectures, platforms, and systems are provided herein. In one example, a method of operating a data processing system is provided. The method includes instructing a PCIe fabric communicatively coupling a plurality of physical computing components including one or more central processing units (CPUs), one or more storage modules and one or more PCIe switches to establish a first PCIe communication path between the management processor and a storage module of the one or more storage modules. The method also includes storing at least an operating system to the storage module using the first PCIe communication path and instructing the PCIe fabric to remove the first PCIe communication path between the management processor and the storage module. Moreover, the method includes instructing the PCIe fabric to establish a second PCIe communication path between a CPU of the one or more CPUs and the storage module comprising the operating system.

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Redding, CA, United States of America

Henry Lee Harris