Abstract: System and method for supporting multiple concurrent SL to VL mappings in a high performance computing environment. In accordance with an embodiment, systems and methods can provide for two or more SL to VL mappings per ingress switch port in a network switched fabric. By allowing for multiple such mappings, greater virtual lane independence can be achieved while continuing to achieve quality of service guarantees.

Abstract: System and method for supporting shared multicast local identifiers (MLIDs) a high performance computing environment. In accordance with an embodiment, a shared MLID range can be configured such that each subnet within a fabric can utilize an MLID within a shared MLID range without the need to utilize a TCAM, or other memory, lookup of a MGID to MLID mapping.

Abstract: System and method for supporting flexible partition key (P_Key) mapping in a high performance computing environment. In accordance with an embodiment, when such computer environments comprise more than one subnet and/or forwarding domain that support inter-subnet partitions, the P_Keys comprising such inter-subnet partitions can change across domain boundaries. In such situations, a partition key of a packet can be updated upon entry to a new subnet and/or forwarding domain.

Abstract: System and method for supporting subnet number aliasing in a high performance computing environment. In accordance with an embodiment, a fabric member can be assigned, by a global fabric manager, an alias fabric local subnet number in order to keep a fabric running after a fabric reconfiguration. The alias fabric local subnet number can be assigned for a period of time, the period of time being static, configurable, or indefinite.

Abstract: A customer may desire to enroll in a transaction, such as a product or a service, offered, managed, and/or owned by an institution, such as a financial institution. The customer may attempt to directly enroll in the product or service or may enroll in the product or service through an agent of the institution. The customer and/or agent may select the product or service (e.g., via a workstation or other device), and a computing device may determine which documents the product or service uses, which documents the customer has on file already, and/or which documents the customer is missing. The computing device may cause the customer and/or agent to be notified of the missing documents. When the customer and/or agent provides all of the documents for the product or service (or an exception applies to one or more missing documents), the computing system may enroll the customer in the selected product or service.

Abstract: A system for communicating a multi-destination packet through a network switch fabric is described. The system receives the multi-destination packet at an input port of the network switch fabric, wherein the multi-destination packet is directed to multiple output ports, and wherein the network switch fabric has a virtual output queue (VOQ) architecture, wherein each input port maintains a separate VOQ for each output port. The system sends the multi-destination packet by inserting the multi-destination packet into VOQs associated with the multiple output ports. While inserting the multi-destination packet in each VOQ, if the VOQ is empty, the system inserts the multi-destination packet at a head of the VOQ. Otherwise, if the VOQ is not empty and if the VOQ contains an end of a last complete packet received by the VOQ, the system inserts the multi-destination packet into the VOQ at the end of the last complete packet.

Abstract: A customer may desire to enroll in a transaction, such as a product or a service, offered, managed, and/or owned by an institution, such as a financial institution. The customer may attempt to directly enroll in the product or service or may enroll in the product or service through an agent of the institution. The customer and/or agent may select the product or service (e.g., via a workstation or other device), and a computing device may determine which documents the product or service uses, which documents the customer has on file already, and/or which documents the customer is missing. The computing device may cause the customer and/or agent to be notified of the missing documents. When the customer and/or agent provides all of the documents for the product or service (or an exception applies to one or more missing documents), the computing system may enroll the customer in the selected product or service.

Abstract: A system for communicating a multicast packet through a network switch fabric is described. The system receives the multicast packet at an input port of the network switch fabric, where the multicast packet is directed to multiple output ports, and where the network switch fabric has a virtual output queue (VOQ)-based architecture, in which each input port maintains a separate VOQ for unicast packets to each output port and one or more VOQs for multicast packets destined to multiple output ports. The system sends the multicast packet by inserting the multicast packet into the one or more VOQs associated with the multiple output ports, so that multicast packets are queued separately from unicast packets. Moreover, the system may optionally dynamically modify a number of the one or more VOQs for the multicast packets based on a number of multicast flows through the network switch fabric.

Abstract: Described herein are systems and methods for use with a load balancer or traffic director, and administration thereof. In accordance with an embodiment the system comprises a traffic director having one or more traffic director instances, which is configured to receive and communicate requests, from clients, to origin servers having one or more pools of servers. A traffic monitor, at the traffic director, monitors traffic, including the number of connections, between the traffic director instances and one or more of the resource servers within the origin servers. The traffic director can set a traffic rate which controls the traffic, including the number of connections, to provide surge protection, or rate acceleration/deceleration.

Abstract: System and method providing resource access control within a single partition in a network switch environment in a high performance computing environment. A resource request portion of an IB packet includes data identifying a resource request for a requested resource, and a context identification portion of the packet includes data identifying a context of the resource request. Access rights to a controlled resource are determined based on the requested resource relative to the controlled resource and according to a comparison of the context of the resource request relative to one or more valid request context values. A resource table storing valid Q_Key and P_Key context values may be indexed by a Dest. QP of the packet header to determine selective access to the controlled resource and/or to data relating to the controlled resource.

Abstract: System and method for monitoring logical network traffic flows using a ternary content addressable memory (TCAM). An exemplary embodiment can provide a network port that is associated with a TCAM. The TCAM can be configured with a plurality of entries, wherein each TCAM entry contains a value. Further, each TCAM entry can be associated with at least one network counter. A predefined set of values can be retrieved from at least one header field of a data packet processed by the network port. Each value in the predefined set of values can be aggregated into a search value, and the search value can be compared to the value contained in each TCAM entry. When a match is found between the search value and the value contained in a TCAM entry, each network counter associated with the matching TCAM entry can be incremented.

Abstract: System and method for supporting intra- and inter-subnet address resolution in a network environment using the same linear forwarding tale (LFT) for both the intra- and inter-subnet forwarding. Subnet prefix values in global route headers (GRHs) are used for linear forwarding table (LFT) lookup in a high performance computing environments. An exemplary can provide for use of an Inter Subnet Route Number (ISRN) embedded in the subnet prefix values in the GRHs for LFT lookup in a network switch environment in a high performance computing environment such as a network having an InfiniBand (IB) architecture. A method can provide, at a computer environment, including a network fabric, one or more subnets, each of which subnets are associated with one or more network switches or hosts. The system and method is compatible with legacy switches and nodes that are not conversant with the ISRNs.

Abstract: System and method for policing logical network traffic flows using a ternary content addressable memory (TCAM). An exemplary embodiment can provide a network port that is associated with a plurality of entries of a TCAM, where each TCAM entry contains a value. Further, each TCAM entry can be assigned a priority and associated with at least one allow/drop action. A predefined set of values can be retrieved from at least one header field of a data packet processed by the network port. Each value in the predefined set of values can be aggregated into a search value, and the search value can be compared to the value contained in each TCAM entry. When a match is found between the search value and the value contained in a TCAM entry, the allow/drop action associated with the matching TCAM entry can be performed.

Abstract: System and method for using multiple global identification subnet prefix values in a network switch environment in a high performance computing environment. A packet is received from a network fabric by a first Host Channel Adapter (HCA). The packet has a header portion including a destination subnet prefix identifying a destination subnet of the network fabric. The network HCA is allowed to receive the first packet from a port of the network HCA by selectively determining a logical state of a flag and, selectively in accordance with a predetermined logical state of the flag, ignoring the destination subnet prefix identifying the destination subnet of the network fabric.

Abstract: System and method for supporting scalable bitmap based P_Key table in a high performance computing environment. A method can provide, at least one subnet comprising one or more switches, a plurality of host channel adapters, and a plurality of end nodes. The method can associate the plurality of end nodes with at least one of a plurality of partitions, wherein each of the plurality of partitions are associated with a P_Key value. The method can associate each of the one or more switches with a bitmap based P_Key table of a plurality of bitmap based P_Key tables. The method can associate each of the host channel adapters with a bitmap based P_Key table of the plurality of bitmap based P_Key tables.

Abstract: A system for communicating packets through a network switch fabric is described. At an aggregation point in the network switch fabric, the system segregates packet flows from multiple sources into a set of quality-of-service (QoS) buckets. The system also associates packet flows from the multiple sources with a global QoS bucket. The system monitors traffic rates for each QoS bucket in the set of QoS buckets and the global QoS bucket. The system determines a state for each QoS bucket by comparing a traffic rate for the QoS bucket with state-specific thresholds. The system also determines a state for the global QoS bucket by comparing a traffic rate for the global QoS bucket with state-specific global thresholds. When a packet is received for a given QoS bucket, the system performs an action based on a state of the given QoS bucket and a state of the global QoS bucket.

Abstract: A system for communicating a multicast packet through a network switch fabric is described. The system receives the multicast packet at an input port of the network switch fabric, where the multicast packet is directed to multiple output ports, and where the network switch fabric has a virtual output queue (VOQ)-based architecture, in which each input port maintains a separate VOQ for unicast packets to each output port and one or more VOQs for multicast packets destined to multiple output ports. The system sends the multicast packet by inserting the multicast packet into the one or more VOQs associated with the multiple output ports, so that multicast packets are queued separately from unicast packets. Moreover, the system may optionally dynamically modify a number of the one or more VOQs for the multicast packets based on a number of multicast flows through the network switch fabric.

Abstract: A system and method can support efficient packet switching in a network environment. The system can comprise an ingress buffer on a networking device. The ingress buffer operate to store one or more incoming packets that are received at an input port on the networking device, wherein the input port is associated with a plurality of source virtual lanes (VLs). Furthermore, the ingress buffer operate to reallocate buffer resource in the ingress buffer from being associated with a first source VL in the plurality of source VLs to being associated with a second source VL in the plurality of source VLs, and send an initial credit update to the input port for the first source VL and the second source VL.

Abstract: Implementations of the present disclosure involve an apparatus, device, component, and/or method for a hardware efficient flow to port affinity management table for link aggregation for a network fabric switch with Ethernet Gateway functionality. Rather than maintaining a state per traffic flow list, the present disclosure utilizes a handle or hash value derived from the traffic flow and associates an output port state to the hash value. The output port state for the hash value is further associated with a portlist that is based on at least a traffic flow policy of the server or group of servers associated with the traffic flow. In addition, the management table may be adjusted based on state changes to one or more of the output ports such that, if a port becomes unavailable, the management table may be adjusted to account for the unavailability of the port.

Abstract: The disclosed embodiments relate to a system for communicating packets through a network switch fabric. During operation, at an aggregation point in the network switch fabric, the system segregates packet flows from multiple sources into a set of quality-of-service (QoS) buckets. Next, the system monitors traffic rates for each QoS bucket. The system then determines a state for each QoS bucket by comparing a traffic rate for the QoS bucket with one or more state-specific thresholds. When a packet is subsequently received for a given QoS bucket, the system performs an action based on a state of the given QoS bucket.