METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DATA COMMUNICATION USING AN INTRACONNECT ARCHITECTURE

摘要

A method, system, and computer program product that specifies a communication intraconnect architecture (CIA) (1000) which includes a novel pull model based data low-latency communication network (110) where data is sent to a receiver along with a memory address (i.e., a receiver buffer address or a reference to a pool manager or buffer pool) where the data is to be stored. CIA primitives (i.e., functions) are used to create nodes (1210) and dialog objects managed by send and receive novel intraconnect front ends (IFEs). A logical dialog is established between corresponding send and receive dialog objects. A send dialog object includes a reference that identifies for the send IFE the corresponding receive dialog object in the receive IFE. The receive dialog object includes a reference that identifies for the receive IFE the corresponding send dialog object in the send IFE. Receive and send primitives (1200) are used to provide pull model data communication over a logical dialog. Novel Receive with Buffer and Receive with Buffer Pool operations are provided. Multiple, full duplex, reliable virtual circuit connections (i.e., multiple dialogs) (1200) can be provided for each node and multiple dialog objects can reference a single node. Multiple outstanding CIA primitive operations (1300) are allowed on each dialog. Dialogs can handle byte stream or message oriented data.