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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 27, 2018
Filed:
May. 31, 2017
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Dennis Charles Abts, Eau Claire, WI (US);
Abdul Kabbani, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Robert Felderman, Portola Valley, CA (US);
Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Aspects and implementations of the present disclosure are directed to an indirect generalized hypercube network in a computer network facility. Servers in the computer network facility participate in both an over-subscribed fat tree network hierarchy culminating in a gateway connection to external networks and in an indirect hypercube network interconnecting a plurality of servers in the fat tree. The participant servers have multiple network interface ports, including at least one port for a link to an edge layer network device of the fat tree and at least one port for a link to a peer server in the indirect hypercube network. Servers are grouped by edge layer network device to form virtual switches in the indirect hypercube network and data packets are routed between servers using routes through the virtual switches. Routes leverage properties of the hypercube topology. Participant servers function as destination points and as virtual interfaces for the virtual switches.