Transaction response aggregation for network data communication

A computer network, comprising:

• an initiator subsystem configured to:
• generate a data stream including a series of n transaction requests for delivery to two or more target subsystems via a network fabric of the computer network;
• and
• transmit each of the series of n transaction requests over the network fabric to the two or more target subsystems;
• and
• an initiator aggregation controller communicatively coupled with the initiator subsystem, the initiator aggregation controller configured to:
• for a first (n−1) transaction requests of the series of n transaction requests, transmit (n−1) preliminary request responses to the initiator subsystem;
• receive, via the network fabric, target-specific aggregated responses to the data stream corresponding to each of the two or more target subsystems;
• and
• upon receiving the target-specific aggregated responses corresponding to each of the two or more target subsystems, transmit an aggregated stream response to the initiator subsystem.

A method for network data communication, comprising:

• at a target subsystem, receiving a series of n transaction requests of a data stream generated by an initiator subsystem and transmitted over a network fabric, wherein an initiator aggregator controller transmits preliminary request responses to the initiator subsystem for a first (n−1) transaction requests of the series of n transaction requests;
• at the target subsystem, generating a series of n transaction responses to the initiator subsystem in response to the series of n transaction requests;
• at a target aggregation controller communicatively coupled to the target subsystem, dropping a first (n−1) transaction responses of the series of n transaction responses transmitted by the target subsystem;
• and
• at the target aggregation controller, upon receiving an nth transaction response from the target subsystem in response to an nth transaction request of the series of n transaction requests, transmitting a target-specific aggregated response to the initiator aggregation controller via the network fabric.