Abstract: A device includes a hardware block to perform a hardware process and internal logic coupled between a processing device, which executes instructions, and the hardware block. The internal logic can one of measure execution time or count clock cycles of at least a portion of the hardware process. The internal logic can further, in response to the measured execution time or the counted clock cycles satisfying a predetermined condition, provide data associated with the one of the execution time measurement or the clock cycles count to the processing device, the data being statistically indicative of a latency of data packets sent by the hardware process over a total time the hardware process executes.

Abstract: A computing system includes at least one peripheral bus, a peripheral device connected to the at least one peripheral bus, at least one memory, and first and second system components. The first system component is (i) associated with a first address space in the at least one memory and (ii) connected to the peripheral device via the at least one peripheral bus. The second system component is (i) associated with a second address space in the at least one memory and (ii) connected to the peripheral device via the at least one peripheral bus. The first system component is arranged to cause the peripheral device to access the second address space that is associated with the second system component.

Abstract: A communication system includes at least one send queue, containing send queue entries pointing to packets to be transmitted over a network by packet sending circuitry. A clock work queue contains clock queue entries to synchronize sending times of the packets pointed to by the send queue entries. At least one arming queue contains arming queue entries to arm the clock work queue at selected time intervals.

Abstract: Devices, methods, and systems are provided. In one example, a device is described to include a device interface that receives data from at least one data source; a data shuffle unit that collects the data received from the at least one data source, receives a descriptor that describes a data shuffle operation to perform on the data received from the at least one data source, performs the data shuffle operation on the collected data to produce shuffled data, and provides the shuffled data to at least one data target.

Abstract: A network interface device includes a local register and packet processing circuitry coupled to the local register. The packet processing circuitry is to: capture a network packet transmitted by a software application running on an integrated computing system; capture, at time of transmission of the network packet, a value of a physical clock as a receive timestamp for subscriber entities that are running on the integrated computing system; store the receive timestamp in the local register; associate the receive timestamp from the local register with a first packet copy of the network packet; insert the first packet copy to a first receive pipeline of a first subscriber entity; associate the receive timestamp from the local register with a second packet copy of the network packet; and insert the second packet copy to a second receive pipeline of a second subscriber entity.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a communication system includes network devices, each comprising a network interface to receive at least one data stream, a given network device being configured to recover a remote clock from the at least one data stream received by the given network device, a frequency synthesizer to generate a clock signal and output the clock signal to each of the network devices, wherein the given network device is configured to find a clock frequency differential between the clock signal and the recovered remote clock, and provide a control signal to the frequency synthesizer responsively to the clock frequency differential, the control signal causes the frequency synthesizer to adjust the clock signal so as to iteratively reduce an absolute value of the clock frequency differential between the clock signal and the recovered remote clock.

Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods are described herein for reducing a link bringup time period for optical switching between network devices. An example method of the present disclosure receives an indication of a reconfiguration condition associated with an optical switch communicatively coupled to an optical communication channel and based on the reconfiguration condition, selects first data associated with a storage device or second data associated with a pattern generator device for transmission to a first network device. Selecting the first or second data may be based on a digital logic signal that indicates whether data is actively received from the second network device via the optical communication channel or may be based on a defined schedule for reconfiguring the optical switch.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a system includes a memory, a processing device including a device processor; and a device clock, and a peripheral device including an interface to share data with the processing device, a hardware clock, and processing circuitry to write respective interrupt signaling messages to the memory responsively to respective hardware clock values of the hardware clock, and wherein the device processor is configured, responsively to the respective interrupt signaling messages being written to the memory, to perform a time-dependent action.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices that perform computing operations are provided. In one example, a system includes a least one node, the at least one node having one or more processors, each having associated memory, a clock, a scheduler, the scheduler monitoring one or more of rates, rates of lanes, rates at which packets are sent, times, latencies of packets, topology, communication states, nodes, and packets in the system, an attribute monitor that measures counters for one or more of congestion state, line rate, and communication attributes. A packet scheduler determines a destination node based on information from the scheduler and the attribute monitor, and sends at least a portion of a packet to the destination node.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a communication system includes network devices, each comprising a network interface to receive at least one data stream, a given network device being configured to recover a remote clock from the at least one data stream received by the given network device, a frequency synthesizer to generate a clock signal and output the clock signal to each of the network devices, wherein the given network device is configured to find a clock frequency differential between the clock signal and the recovered remote clock, and provide a control signal to the frequency synthesizer responsively to the clock frequency differential, the control signal causes the frequency synthesizer to adjust the clock signal so as to iteratively reduce an absolute value of the clock frequency differential between the clock signal and the recovered remote clock.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a clock syntonization system includes a first compute node including a first physical hardware clock to operate at a first clock frequency, a second compute node, and an interconnect data bus to transfer data from the first compute node at a data rate indicative of the first clock frequency of the first physical hardware clock, and wherein the second compute node includes clock synchronization circuitry to derive a second clock frequency from the data rate of the transferred data, and provide a clock signal at the derived second clock frequency.

Abstract: A timing system including timing circuitry which includes an arming queue, a clock work queue, and a clock completion queue. At least the clock work queue is to provide timing information, and the arming queue is to arm the clock work queue. Related apparatus and methods are also provided.

Abstract: Network devices and associated methods are provided for synchronization in an optically switched network. The network device includes one or more ports in communication with a plurality of devices via an optical switch. The one or more ports receive a master clock signal having a first frequency from a first device of the plurality of devices. The network device includes a local clock in communication with the one or more ports and operating at a second frequency. The network device includes a synchronization manager in communication with the one or more ports and the local clock and configured to be enabled and disabled. When the synchronization manager is enabled, it receives the master clock signal via the one or more ports and transmits an instruction to the local clock to operate at the first frequency.

Abstract: System, methods, and devices for sharing time information between machines are provided. In one example, a system includes a Precision Time Protocol (PTP) Hardware Clock (PHC) and an application. The application receives time information from the PHC along with contextual metadata associated with the time information, analyzes the contextual metadata associated with the time information, and determines a context in which the PHC is disciplined. The context in which the PHC is disciplined may control a manner in which the application uses the time information.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a device includes a hardware clock to maintain a clock value, a hardware counter to maintain an estimation of a dynamic error bound of the clock value, and a clock controller to intermittently discipline the hardware clock responsively to a remote clock, advance the hardware counter at a rate responsively to a clock drift, and adjust the hardware counter responsively to the hardware clock being disciplined.

Abstract: Devices, methods, and systems are provided. In one example, a device is described to include circuitry that collects data received from a data source, references a descriptor that describes a data reformat operation to perform on the data received from the data source, reformats the data received from the data source according to the data reformat operation, and provides the reformatted data to the data target via the second device interface.

Abstract: A system is disclosed that includes two or more network elements, each comprising a Precision Time Protocol (PTP) Hardware Clock (PHC) that is adjustable based, at least in part, on physical layer frequency information.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a synchronized communication system includes a plurality of network devices, and clock connections to connect the network devices in a closed loop configuration, wherein the network devices are configured to distribute among the network devices a reference clock time from any selected one of the network devices.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a synchronized communication system includes a first network device and a second network device, wherein the first network device includes a first physical hardware clock, and is configured to recover a reference clock time from packets received from a remote clock, find a clock differential between a clock time output by the first physical hardware clock and the recovered reference clock time, provide a control signal to the second network device responsively to the clock differential, and the second network device includes a second physical hardware clock, and is configured to adjust a clock time output by the second physical hardware clock responsively to the control signal.

Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to systems, methods, and computer readable media for dynamic data transfer rate control. One method includes alternating a network device between a plurality of supported data transfer rates that are supported by the network device to achieve an unsupported data transfer rate that is not supported by the network device. Another method includes adding one or more dummy work descriptors to a data stream, and transmitting the data stream including the one or more dummy work descriptors at a supported data transfer rate that is supported by a network device to achieve an effective unsupported data transfer rate that is not supported by the network device.