Patent ID: 11930611
Assignee: DELL PRODUCTS L.P.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 15:
16. A system comprising:
a motherboard comprising one or more CPUs (Central Processing Units) configured to operate as a root complex for a PCIe switch fabric comprising a plurality of PCIe devices of the IHS; and
an I/O module providing I/O capabilities for the motherboard, wherein the I/O module comprises:
a network controller configured to allocate network bandwidth for use by a hardware accelerator sled installed in the chassis, unless an integrated network controller is detected as a component of a hardware accelerator baseboard installed in the hardware accelerator sled, and
a PCIe switch that operates with the CPUs as the root complex of the PCIe switch fabric and with the hardware accelerator baseboard as a PCIe endpoint of the PCIe switch fabric, and wherein the PCIe switch operates with the CPUs as PCIe endpoints of the PCIe switch fabric and the hardware accelerator baseboard as the root complex of the PCIe switch fabric.