Object memory interfaces across shared links

An object memory fabric comprising:

• a plurality of hardware-based processing nodes, each hardware-based processing node comprising:
• one or more memory modules storing and managing a plurality of memory objects in a hierarchy of the object memory fabric, wherein each memory object is created natively within the memory module through a name space of the object memory fabric, each memory object is accessed by applications executing on the hardware-based processing node using a single memory reference instruction without Input/Output (I/O) instructions by the applications, each memory object is managed by the one or more memory modules through the name space of the object memory fabric at a single memory layer without distinction between memory and storage, and the object memory fabric utilizes the name space of the object memory fabric and a memory fabric protocol to communicate between the hardware-based processing node and one or more other nodes of the plurality of hardware-based processing nodes, and
• a node router communicatively coupled with each of the one or more memory modules of the node and adapted to route memory objects or portions of memory objects between the one or more memory modules of the node using the memory fabric protocol;
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• one or more inter-node routers communicatively coupled with each node router, wherein each of the plurality of nodes of the object memory fabric is communicatively coupled with at least one of the inter-node routers and adapted to route memory objects or portions of memory objects between the plurality of nodes using the memory fabric protocol.

A method for providing communication links in an object memory fabric comprising a plurality of hardware-based processing nodes, the method comprising:

• creating, by the hardware-based processing nodes of the object memory fabric, each memory object natively within a memory module of a hardware-based processing node through a name space of the object memory fabric;
• accessing, by the hardware-based processing nodes, each memory object using a single memory reference instruction without Input/Output (I/O) instructions;
• managing, by the hardware-based processing nodes, each memory object within the memory module through the name space of the object memory fabric at a single memory layer without distinction between memory and storage;
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• communicating between the hardware-based processing nodes using the name space of the object memory fabric and a memory fabric protocol.