Patent ID: 11949530
Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 7:
8. A system for providing multicast group membership defined relative to partition membership in a high performance computing environment, comprising:
at a computer comprising one or more microprocessors;
a subnet, the subnet comprising one or more switches, a plurality of end nodes interconnected via the one or more switches, and a subnet manager running on a node of the subnet;
wherein a multicast join request message is generated at an end node of the subnet, wherein the multicast join message comprises a plurality of subnet administration attributes, wherein the end node is a member of a partition defined within the subnet, wherein a set of the plurality of end nodes, including the end node, are defined as members of the partition; and
wherein an indication is provided, via one of the plurality of subnet administration attributes of the multicast join message, that each of the set of the plurality of end nodes should be added to a same multicast group.