US 12,405,843 B2
Infrastructure processing unit
Kshitij A. Doshi, Tempe, AZ (US); Johan Van De Groenendaal, Portland, OR (US); Edmund Chen, Sunnyvale, CA (US); Ravi Sahita, Portland, OR (US); Andrew J. Herdrich, Hillsboro, OR (US); Debra Bernstein, Sudbury, MA (US); Christine E. Severns-Williams, Deephaven, MN (US); Uri V. Cummings, Los Gatos, CA (US); and Utkarsh Y. Kakaiya, Folsom, CA (US)
Assigned to Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US)
Filed by Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US)
Filed on Dec. 26, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/134,324.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/087,218, filed on Oct. 3, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0117249 A1, Apr. 22, 2021
Int. Cl. G06F 9/52 (2006.01); G06F 9/50 (2006.01); G06F 9/54 (2006.01); H04L 43/08 (2022.01); H04L 67/1014 (2022.01); H04L 67/148 (2022.01)
CPC G06F 9/522 (2013.01) [G06F 9/5072 (2013.01); G06F 9/547 (2013.01); H04L 43/08 (2013.01); H04L 67/1014 (2013.01); H04L 67/148 (2013.01)] 22 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system comprising:
a network interface device that comprises:
a direct memory access (DMA) circuitry;
interface circuitry to provide a communicative coupling with a first host platform;
network interface circuitry to provide a communicative coupling with a network medium to transmit and receive Ethernet packets;
circuitry to:
provide access to distributed nodes to microservices executed by the first host platform, wherein the distributed nodes comprises circuitry of a second host platform and a second network interface device and wherein the second host platform and the second network interface devices are communicatively coupled to the network interface device via the interface circuitry or the network interface circuitry; and
selectively provide, from the network interface device, a barrier to halt operation of at least one microservice of the microservices based on event data from the distributed nodes and based on the event data from the distributed nodes, release the barrier to permit operation of the at least one microservice of the microservices, wherein the release the barrier comprises permit devices of the distributed nodes to execute awaiting microservices.