Communication Fabric Coupled Compute Units

    公开(公告)号:US20210240538A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-08-05

    申请号:US17233711

    申请日:2021-04-19

    Applicant: Liqid Inc.

    Abstract: Communication fabric-coupled computing architectures, platforms, and systems are provided herein. In one example, an apparatus includes a management entity configured to establish a compute unit comprising components from among a plurality of physical computing components by at least instructing a communication fabric communicatively coupling the plurality of physical computing components to establish logical isolation within the communication fabric to form the compute unit. Responsive to an indication of a change in workload associated with at least a software component deployed to a processing element of the compute unit, the management entity is configured to adjust the logical isolation to alter a quantity of the plurality of physical computing components in the compute unit in accordance with the change in the workload.

    Emulated Telemetry Interfaces For Fabric-Coupled Computing Units

    公开(公告)号:US20200264998A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-08-20

    申请号:US16866000

    申请日:2020-05-04

    Applicant: Liqid Inc.

    Abstract: Disaggregated computing architectures, platforms, and systems are provided herein. In one example, a method of operating compute units is presented that includes forming compute units among a plurality of physical computing components coupled over a Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) fabric configured to communicatively couple the plurality of physical computing components and isolate the compute unit using logical partitioning within the PCIe fabric. The method also includes initiating a software component deployed to at least associated CPUs within the compute units, reporting telemetry to the management processor related to operation of the compute unit, and emulating operation of at least one among an Ethernet and InfiniB and interface to an operating system of the associated CPU for transfer of communications comprising at least the telemetry to the management processor over the PCIe fabric.

    Storage Control Interposers In Data Storage Systems

    公开(公告)号:US20190391951A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-12-26

    申请号:US16553363

    申请日:2019-08-28

    Applicant: Liqid Inc.

    Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and architectures for storage interposers are provided herein. In one example, an apparatus includes a host connector configured to couple to one or more host systems over associated host Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) interfaces, and PCIe switch circuitry configured to receive storage operations over the host connector that are issued by the one or more host systems. The PCIe switch circuitry is configured to monitor when ones of the storage operations correspond to an address range and responsively indicate the ones of the storage operations to a control module. The control module is configured to selectively direct delivery of the ones of the storage operations to corresponding storage areas among one or more storage devices based at least on addressing information monitored for the ones of the storage operations in the PCIe switch circuitry.

    Initialization of modular data storage assemblies

    公开(公告)号:US10423547B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-09-24

    申请号:US16029815

    申请日:2018-07-09

    Applicant: Liqid Inc.

    Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and software for data storage systems are provided herein. In one example, a data storage platform includes data storage assemblies each comprising one or more storage drives that service data storage operations over associated storage interfaces. A control processor is coupled to ones of the data storage assemblies over at least two types of sideband communication interfaces different than the storage interfaces of the storage drives. During an initialization process for the one or more storage drives, the control processor configured to transfer initialization data to each of the data storage assemblies over a first type of sideband communication interface and transfer further initialization data to at least one of the data storage assemblies over a second type of sideband communication interface when the at least one of the data storage assemblies does not respond to the initialization data over the first type of sideband communication interface.

    Network Failover Handling In Computing Systems

    公开(公告)号:US20190146889A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-05-16

    申请号:US16246686

    申请日:2019-01-14

    Applicant: Liqid Inc.

    Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and software for computing systems are provided herein. In one example, a computing system includes a first processor configured to establish a network connection with a target system, and transfer to a second processor information describing the network connection comprising a network address and a network port. The computing system includes the second processor configured to identify when the first processor has failed, and responsively inherit the network connection with the target system based at least on the information describing the network connection and packet sequence information received from the target system to resume packet acknowledge or sequence counts established between the first processor and the target system.

    Statistical power handling in a scalable storage system

    公开(公告)号:US10114784B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-10-30

    申请号:US14694732

    申请日:2015-04-23

    Applicant: Liqid Inc.

    Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and software for data storage systems are provided herein. In one example, a data storage assembly is provided that includes a plurality of storage drives each comprising a PCIe host interface and solid state storage media. The data storage assembly includes a PCIe switch circuit coupled to the PCIe host interfaces of the storage drives and configured to receive storage operations issued by one or more host systems over a shared PCIe interface and transfer the storage operations for delivery to the storage drives over selected ones of the PCIe host interfaces. The data storage assembly includes a control processor configured to monitor usage statistics of the storage drives, and power control circuitry configured to selectively remove the power from ones of the storage drives based at least on the usage statistics of the storage drives.

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