Method for remote node discovery and communication channel validation and connection
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsRichard K. Errickson, Sean Liu, Michael Lyons, Peter K. Szwed
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AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsRichard K. Errickson, Sean Liu, Michael Lyons, Peter K. Szwed
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According to one embodiment, a method, computer system, and computer program product for computer networking is provided. The present invention may include a method of using media access control (MAC) multicast procedures to discover remote node addressability, and InfiniBand® (InfiniBand® and all InfiniBand® based trademarks and logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of System I/O, Incorporated and/or its affiliates) protocols to connect sets of queue pairs in implementing one or more communication channels, comprising preparing hardware to connect point-to-point links between a systems; discovering remote systems on the other side of the links through a discovery process; creating administrative traffic lanes; verifying the connection between nodes; initiating the auxiliary traffic flow interface; negotiating and connecting buffers; and exchanging node descriptors.
A computer system for remote node discovery and linking a plurality of queue pairs for communication channel implementation, the computer system comprising:
A computer program product for remote node discovery and linking a plurality of queue pairs for communication channel implementation, the computer program product comprising:
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