Intel Corporation
ADVANCED INTERLEAVING TECHNIQUES FOR FABRIC BASED POOLING ARCHITECTURES

Abstract:

Methods and apparatus for advanced interleaving techniques for fabric based pooling architectures. The method implemented in an environment including a switch connected to host servers and to pooled memory nodes or memory servers hosting memory pools. Memory is interleaved across the memory pools using interleaving units, with the interleaved memory mapped into a global memory address space. Applications running on the host servers are enabled to access data stored in the memory pools via memory read and write requests issued by the applications specifying address endpoints within the global memory space. The switch generates multi-cast or multiple unicast messages associated with the memory read and write requests that are sent to the pooled memory nodes or memory servers. For memory reads, the data returned from multiple memory pools is aggregated at the switch and returned to the application using one or more packets as a single response.