Patent ID: 11907151
Assignee: DRUT TECHNOLOGIES INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 16:
17. A method for managing a reconfigurable computing cluster comprising:
providing a reconfigurable computing cluster, comprising a data path transport, at least four computing assets, and two or more bidirectional data communication paths coupled to each computing asset, wherein each of the first plurality of computing assets comprises functional elements, and a fabric interface device coupled to the functional elements via a multi-lane peripheral component interconnect express (PCIe) bus, wherein the fabric interface devices within the at least four computing assets are configured to transparently extend the multi-lane PCIe bus by converting the multi-lane PCIe data into a retimed parallel version of the PCIe multi-lane data to be sent on the data communications paths, and further wherein each of the at least four computing assets is connected to the data path transport to form a bidirectional network having a data communication path between each pair of the at least four computing assets;
receiving a request for a compute node;
selecting, from the at least four computing assets, three computing assets to implement the compute node;
defining a defined data communications path between each pair of the three computing assets to implement the compute node;
the data communication paths connecting each of the three computing assets to each of the other of the three computing assets; and
configuring the data path transport to provide the defined data communications paths between each pair of the three computing assets.