Sanmina Corporation

Saratoga Speed, Inc.

Thomas Gourley

Sharad Mehrotra

Jon Livesey

Jack Mills

Julian Ratcliffe

Abbas Morshed

A method is provided for use with a packet routing network in which one or more endpoints includes Flash storage; multiple endpoints are configured to impart services to packets; a distributed routing structure is provided that includes routing structure portions that are associated with endpoints and that indicate next hop destination endpoint addresses that collectively define multiple sequences of endpoints that each includes one or more endpoints configured to impart a service and an endpoint that includes Flash storage; packets received from an external network are propagated through defined sequences of endpoints; services are imparted to a received packet by endpoints that receive it in the course of its propagation.

Method of flow based services for flash storage

A system is provided that includes a packet routing network that includes routing circuitry to route packets between endpoints coupled to the network; one or more endpoints include a Flash storage circuit; a distributed routing structure defines multiple routes, each route including a different sequence of endpoints, including a Flash storage circuit endpoint; the distributed endpoint routing structure includes routing structure portions that are distributed among endpoints; the endpoints provide services to packets transmitted over routes defined by the distributed routing structure.

Storage system with flow based services for flash storage

A system is provided comprising: a packet routing network; Flash storage circuitry; a management processor coupled as an endpoint to the network; an input/output (I/O) circuit coupled as an endpoint to the network; a packet processing circuit coupled as an endpoint to the network; a cache storage circuit coupled to send and received packets to and from the packet processing circuit; and a RAID management circuit coupled as an endpoint to the network and configured to send and receive packets to and from the Flash storage circuitry; wherein the management processor is configured to determine routing of packets among the I/O circuit, packet processing circuit and RAID management circuit; and wherein the packet processing circuit is configured to control cache read requests, cache write requests and cache data eviction.

Network system with cache offload service for flash storage

A system is provided comprising: a packet routing network; Flash storage circuitry; a management processor coupled as an endpoint to the network; an input/output (I/O) circuit coupled as an endpoint to the network; a packet processing circuit coupled as an endpoint to the network; and a RAID management circuit coupled as an endpoint to the network and configured to send and receive packets to and from the Flash storage circuitry; wherein the management processor is configured to determine routing of packets among the I/O circuit, packet processing circuit and RAID management circuit.

Network system with offload services for flash storage

A method is provided to configure endpoints of a packet routing network, in which one or more endpoints includes Flash storage; multiple endpoints are provided that are configured to impart services to packets; a plurality of information structure portions are provided that associate flow identifiers with next hop destination endpoint addresses to define a plurality of flow identifier-next hop destination endpoint addresses pairs (pairs); different pairs are stored within non-transitory storage devices at different endpoints so that relationships among the next hop destination endpoint addresses of the pairs stored at different endpoints define multiple respective sequences of endpoints that each includes one or more endpoints configured to impart a service and an endpoint that includes Flash storage.

Method of configuring a system for flow based services for flash storage and associated information structure

Apparatus and method for accelerating processing operations of flash based storage systems are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, an IC component disposed between I/O circuitry and flash storage devices is configured to optimize fulfillment of data read and write requests originating from a network or device external to the flash based storage system using cache memory before involving the flash storage devices.

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Banks, OR, United States of America

Thomas Gourley