Patent ID: 9703738
Date: 2017-07-11
CPC Classifications: G06F,Y02D

Claim:
1. A computing system framework with a unified storage, processing, and network switching fabrics, comprising: four or more processing nodes; four or more intra-module ports, each intra-module port being uniquely associated with one of the processing nodes; a plurality of inter-module ports, each inter-module port being associated with one of the processing nodes; a plurality of processing modules, each processing module comprising two or more of the processing nodes uniquely selected from the four or more processing nodes, wherein each of the processing nodes is comprised in only one of the processing modules; a plurality of intra-module networks, wherein the processing nodes within each processing module are fully inter-connected; an inter-module network comprising at least one connection between one inter-module port on one processing module and another inter-module port on another processing module, the inter-module network further comprising a series of linearly connected processing modules with a beginning and an end of the series further connected to each other to form a ring, using two inter-module ports from each of the connected processing modules; and a connection between processing modules on the ring comprising at least one of: