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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 11, 2019
Filed:
Jul. 12, 2017
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Richard K. Errickson, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Sean Liu, Brooklyn, NY (US);
Michael Lyons, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Peter K. Szwed, Rhinebeck, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
According to one embodiment, a method, computer system, and computer program product for computer networking is provided. The present invention may include a method of using media access control (MAC) multicast procedures to discover remote node addressability, and InfiniBand® (InfiniBand® and all InfiniBand® based trademarks and logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of System I/O, Incorporated and/or its affiliates) protocols to connect sets of queue pairs in implementing one or more communication channels, comprising preparing hardware to connect point-to-point links between a systems; discovering remote systems on the other side of the links through a discovery process; creating administrative traffic lanes; verifying the connection between nodes; initiating the auxiliary traffic flow interface; negotiating and connecting buffers; and exchanging node descriptors.