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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 30, 2017
Filed:
May. 17, 2013
Dell Products, Lp, Round Rock, TX (US);
Robert W. Hormuth, Cedar Park, TX (US);
Robert L. Winter, Burnet, TX (US);
Shawn J. Dube, Austin, TX (US);
Bradley J. Booth, Austin, TX (US);
Geng Lin, Cupertino, CA (US);
Jimmy Pike, Georgetown, TX (US);
Dell Products, LP, Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
A system includes first and second processing nodes and a network switch coupled to the first and second processing nodes via respective first and second interfaces. The network switch includes a management controller coupled to the interfaces to provide management functions to the processing nodes, first and second network interfaces coupled respectively to the first and second interfaces to provide network access for the processing nodes, a message passing interface between the first processing node and the second processing node, a storage interface coupled to the first and second interfaces to provide a storage capacity to the processing nodes, and a remote component controller coupled to the interfaces.