Software application striping
First Claim
1. A distributed computing platform, comprising:
- a plurality of interconnected networking switches forming a general data transport network between a first and second different device, each switch having a memory element and a multi-core processor;
a first processing core from a first switch of the networking switches and a second processing core from a second different switch of the networking switches;
a system memory comprising allocated memory elements from at least two of the switches where the system memory is addressable by the first and the second processing cores, and storing a software application; and
wherein executable portions of the software application are securely striped across the first and the second processing cores by distributing the executable portions to the cores in the different switches according to a secret distribution function secured via a secret key, where the secret distribution function governs placement of the executable portions on the cores in a manner that appear random.
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Abstract
A distributed computing system comprising networking infrastructure and methods of executing an application on the distributed computing system is presented. Interconnected networking nodes offering available computing resources form a network fabric. The computing resources can be allocated from the networking nodes, including available processing cores or memory elements located on the networking nodes. A software application can be stored in a system memory comprising memory elements allocated from the nodes. The software application can be disaggregated into a plurality of executable portions that are striped across the allocated processing cores by assigning each core a portion to execute. When the cores are authenticated with respect to their portions, the cores are allowed to execute the portions by accessing the system memory over the fabric. While executing the software application, the networking nodes having the allocated cores concurrently forward packets through the fabric.
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15 Claims
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1. A distributed computing platform, comprising:
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a plurality of interconnected networking switches forming a general data transport network between a first and second different device, each switch having a memory element and a multi-core processor; a first processing core from a first switch of the networking switches and a second processing core from a second different switch of the networking switches; a system memory comprising allocated memory elements from at least two of the switches where the system memory is addressable by the first and the second processing cores, and storing a software application; and wherein executable portions of the software application are securely striped across the first and the second processing cores by distributing the executable portions to the cores in the different switches according to a secret distribution function secured via a secret key, where the secret distribution function governs placement of the executable portions on the cores in a manner that appear random. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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