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

Claim 9:
10. A reconfigurable computing cluster with remote computing assets, comprising:
an photonic cross-connect switch;
three or more bidirectional fiber optic communication paths; and
a first of at least three computing assets, wherein each of the computing assets is connected to each of the other computing assets through a computer network interface card, wherein each of the first at least three computing assets comprises:
functional elements, wherein each functional element performs a function of a central processing unit (CPU); and
a fabric interface device coupled to the functional elements via a multi-lane peripheral component interconnect express (PCIe) bus, wherein the fabric interface device within the first at least three computing assets are configured to transparently extend the multi-lane PCIe bus between computing assets via the fiber optic communications paths and the optical circuit switch by converting PCIe data received from the PCIe bus into a retimed parallel optical version of the PCIe data, and further wherein each of the first at least three computing assets is connected to the optical circuit switch by the three or more bidirectional fiber optic communication paths to form a bidirectional network having a communication path between each pair of the first at least three computing assets.