Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomput – Computer network managing – Computer network monitoring
Reexamination Certificate
2007-10-30
2007-10-30
Donaghue, Larry D. (Department: 2154)
Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomput
Computer network managing
Computer network monitoring
C714S043000
Reexamination Certificate
active
10338987
ABSTRACT:
A verification mechanism monitors incoming and outgoing traffic between a channel adapter and a switch fabric in an InfiniBandSMsystem in order to verify that the InfiniBandSMprotocol is correctly followed by the channel adapter. The verification mechanism uses a simple hardware-independent interface to query the channel adapter hardware for specific values and completion queue, queue pair and work queue element attributes that are required for verification. The verification mechanism creates a plurality of verification components that monitor incoming and outgoing messages and verify that each of the channel adapter elements correctly follows the protocol. The verification mechanism is controlled by a verification application programming interface (API) that allows different test benches and tests to incorporate InfiniBandSMprotocol verification in any test system for use with any hardware.
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Dobric Damian
Finkelstein Arina
Rozman Eduard
Wong Francis
Donaghue Larry D.
Dorsey & Whitney LLP
Sun Microsystems Inc.
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