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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 31, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 30, 2012
Ying Chen, Beijing, CN;
Yan LI, Beijing, CN;
Qiming Teng, Beijing, CN;
Huayong Wang, Beijing, CN;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
In view of the characteristics of distributed applications, the present invention proposes a technical solution for applying a shared memory on an NIC comprising: a shared memory configured to provide shared storage space for a task of a distributed application, and a microcontroller. Furthermore, the present invention provides a computer device that includes the above-mentioned NIC, a method for controlling a read/write operation on a shared memory of a NIC, and a method for invoking the NIC. The use of the technical solution provided in the present invention bypasses the processing of network protocol stack, avoids the time delay introduced by the network protocol stack. The present invention does not need to perform TCP/IP encapsulation on the data packet, thus greatly saving additional packet header and packet tail overheads generated from the TCP/IP layer data encapsulation.