Automatically routing super-compute interconnects

摘要

A mechanism is provided for automatically routing network interconnects in a data processing system. A processor in a node of a plurality of nodes receives network topology from neighboring nodes in the plurality of nodes within the data processing system. The processor constructs a system node map that identifies a physical connectivity between the node and the neighboring nodes. The processor programs a switch in the node with a connectivity map that indicates a set of point-to-point connections with the neighboring nodes. The set of point-to-point connections comprise locally-connected connections and pass-through connections.

主权项

1. A method, in a data processing system comprising a plurality of nodes, for automatically routing network interconnects, the method comprising:
retrieving, by a processor in a node of the plurality of nodes, network topology from neighboring nodes in the plurality of nodes within the data processing system; constructing, by the processor, a system node map that identifies a physical connectivity between the node and the neighboring nodes; and programming, by the processor, a switch in the node with a connectivity map that indicates a set of point-to-point connections with and between the neighboring nodes, wherein, once programmed, the set of point-to-point connections comprise a set of locally-connected connections for interaction by the switch and a set of pass-through connections for communication between neighboring nodes without any interaction by the switch, wherein the node is one of a plurality of processing nodes within a modular processing module that comprises a set of processing module sides, wherein each processing module side comprises:
a circuit board;a plurality of connectors coupled to the circuit board; andthe plurality of processing nodes coupled to the circuit board, wherein each processing module side in the set of processing module sides couples to another processing module side using at least one connector in the plurality of connectors such that when all of the set of processing module sides are coupled together the modular processing module is formed, and wherein the modular processing module comprises an exterior connection to at least one other modular processing module, wherein the exterior connection is comprised in at least one processing module side of the set of processing module sides that couples the circuit board of the at least one processing module side to at least one other modular processing module via a backplane of the data processing system, and wherein at least one of the neighboring nodes in the plurality of nodes is in the at least one other modular processing module.