Utilization of a distributed index to provide object memory fabric coherency

A hardware-based processing node comprising:

• an object memory module comprising a single, pluggable hardware module and further comprising object storage storing one or more memory objects and memory object meta-data, wherein each memory object and/or portion of memory objects is created natively within the object memory module and is a managed natively by the object memory module at a single memory layer without distinction between memory and storage;
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• an object router communicatively coupled to the object memory module, wherein the object router maintains an object cache state for at least one of the memory objects and/or portions of memory objects contained in the object memory module, wherein the object memory module is below the object router along a line of descent in a hierarchy stemming from the object router;
• the object router to process one or more requests based at least in part on the object cache state.

A method for storing and managing one or more memory objects in an object memory fabric, the method comprising:

• storing one or more memory objects and memory object meta-data in object storage of an object memory module comprising a single, pluggable hardware module, wherein each memory object and/or portion of memory objects is created natively within the object memory module and is a managed natively by the object memory module at a single memory layer without distinction between memory and storage;
• maintaining, by an object router communicatively coupled to the object memory module, an object cache state for at least one of the memory objects and/or portions of memory objects contained in the object memory module, wherein the object memory module is below the object router along a line of descent in a hierarchy stemming from the object router;
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• processing by the object router one or more requests based at least in part on the object cache state.