366 results about "Expansion card" patented technology

The invention relates to the technical field of servers, and discloses a silk-screen binding method, device and system for external card insertion equipment of a server, the method is applied to a processing module on a mainboard, and the method comprises the steps that the position of a PCIe expansion card in the server is obtained, burning information is read through an I2C switch of the PCIe expansion card, and the burning information is sent to the processing module; obtaining a physical slot silk screen of a server where the PCIe device is located on each slot, and obtaining an I2C address bound to each PCIe device; determining at least one PCIe device address according to a preset processor address, slot bandwidth information, at least one mapping relation and in-place information of the PCIe device on each slot; and establishing a binding relationship among the physical slot silk-screen of the PCIe equipment on each slot, the address of the PCIe equipment and the I2C address, and managing the PCIe equipment by using the binding relationship. According to the method, the BIOS or the BMC can freely access the same equipment through the I2C path, and the problem that specified equipment cannot be managed is solved.

The invention discloses an expansion card circuit capable of being inserted into external equipment and a communication method. The circuit comprises an expansion card, a slot board and a mainboard, wherein the mainboard comprises a processor, a substrate management controller, a novel bus protocol chip and at least one connector; a first channel is established between the substrate management controller and a chip circuit on the expansion card through the at least one connector, the first channel is used for transmitting a first high-speed signal of an integrated circuit bus protocol between the mainboard and the expansion card, and a second channel is established between the substrate management controller and external equipment inserted into the slot board through the at least one connector; and the second channel is used for transmitting a second high-speed signal of the novel bus protocol between the mainboard and the external equipment. The hardware line of the expansion card circuit provided by the invention meets the requirement of a CEM Riser card of a PCIe6.0 protocol, and meanwhile, the line keeps the communication capability with an I2C high-speed signal, so that the transmission compatibility of I2C and I3C bus communication protocols is realized.

The invention provides a data transmission efficiency improving method and device, equipment and a storage medium, and the method comprises the steps: carrying out the equipment recognition and address space mapping of expansion card equipment connected with a PCIe interface on a GPU, and obtaining GPU data transmission configuration information; according to the configuration information, carrying out storage space division and transmission channel establishment on the expansion card equipment to obtain a GPU data transmission channel configuration result; scheduling and distributing the GPU data to be transmitted based on the configuration result and a preset CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture) shared storage mechanism to obtain a data transmission execution scheme; and starting, controlling, monitoring in real time and dynamically adjusting the transmission process of the data to be transmitted according to the execution scheme and a preset RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) disk array. According to the method, the expansion card equipment and the RAID disk array are introduced, and a CUDA shared storage mechanism is combined, so that the available storage space of the GPU is effectively expanded, the data transmission process is optimized, the data transmission efficiency when the GPU processes a large-scale data set is remarkably improved, and meanwhile, relatively low hardware cost is kept.

The present disclosure includes an expansion card fixing structure and electronic device using the same. The guiding track includes a track base, the track base includes a track slot, the track slot extends in a first direction, and the track slot portions of the track base recessed in a second direction to form the track slot. A limiting element includes a first end and a second end at intervals along a third direction. The first end extends into the track slot along the third direction, the second end forms an avoidance hole through the second direction. A handle includes a first surface and a second surface, the handle is connected to the second surface by a latch. A resilient member is configured for driving the first end into the track slot. An expansion plate includes a guide portion.

The invention discloses a server and a server assembling method, and relates to the technical field of servers, the server comprises a case and a board card module, the case comprises a case body and a cross beam, the cross beam is installed in the case body along a first direction, and an inner cavity of the case body is constructed into a first accommodating cavity and a second accommodating cavity which are respectively located at two sides of the cross beam along a second direction; wherein the second direction is perpendicular to the first direction; the board card module is installed in the case and comprises a substrate, a network card and an expansion card, the substrate is a plate body of an integrally-formed structure, the substrate is detachably connected into the case and located below the cross beam, the network card and the expansion card are both installed on the substrate, and the network card and the expansion card are contained in the first containing cavity and the second containing cavity respectively. And the network card is fixed on the cross beam. The server solves the problems that a current server is complex in structure, high in cost, difficult to assemble and high in failure rate.

A riser card includes a circuit board and first, second, and third connectors. The first and second connectors are positioned at bottom and top edges of the circuit board, respectively. The third connector is mounted to a face of the circuit board. Such riser card may be mounted on a primary system board such that the first connector is detachably connected to a first complementary connector of the primary system board with the circuit board perpendicular to the primary system board, and the first connector receives power, data, and sideband signals from the first complementary connector. The second and third connectors may mate with second and third complementary connectors of an expansion card oriented parallel to the circuit board and a stackable secondary riser card oriented perpendicular to the circuit board, respectively. The riser card communicates power and sideband signals to the stackable secondary riser card via the third connector.

The invention relates to a method and a device for intelligently identifying server configuration and adaptively configuring PCIe (Peripheral Component Interconnect Express) bandwidth. The method comprises the following steps of: configuring a wiring mode of an I / O (Input / Output) expander in each server expansion card connected with a server mainboard and an onboard PCIe slot; starting a server power supply, and after the substrate management controller is initialized, acquiring a register value of an I / O expander on each server expansion card through an IIC communication protocol; the substrate management controller sends register values of all the I / O expanders to the complex programmable logic device; the complex programmable logic device sends register values of all the I / O expanders to a central processing unit of a server through a vGPIO communication protocol; and based on the register value of the I / O expander, the basic input / output system allocates bandwidth and resources to the onboard PCIE slot in each server expansion card. According to the method, the number of the universal server board cards can be reduced, the PCIe bandwidth can be adaptively configured, and the error probability is reduced.

The invention provides a data storage position dynamic optimization method, device and equipment and a storage medium, and the method comprises the steps: connecting expansion card equipment with a GPU through a PCIe interface on the GPU, and carrying out BDF structure scanning and space mapping to obtain storage space configuration information; preprocessing a shared keyword code segment of the GPU kernel function code and inserting an expansion card identifier, and configuring data transmission parameters to obtain initial configuration of a CUDA shared storage mechanism; the method comprises the following steps of: partitioning a running capacity region and a high-speed cache region of a storage space of expansion card equipment, and performing thread synchronization and parallel calculation on to-be-operated data of a GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) through SLC (Single Level Cell) data block partitioning to obtain running state information of the storage space; and dynamically migrating the distribution of the to-be-operated data between the operation capacity region and the cache region according to the operation state information. By dynamically optimizing the data storage position, the utilization rate of storage resources is improved, the data access delay is reduced, the GPU computing process is accelerated, and the overall system performance is improved.

The embodiment of the utility model discloses an adapter card module and electronic equipment, and relates to the technical field of electronic equipment, and the adapter card module comprises a circuit board, a slot connector and a first cable. Wherein the slot connector is arranged on the circuit board, the slot connector is provided with a first slot pin, and the slot connector is used for plugging an expansion card; one end of the first cable is connected with the first slot pins in a one-to-one correspondence manner to form first joint pins; and the other end of the first cable is used for being connected with a mainboard of the electronic equipment, so that the expansion card is communicated with the first joint pin and is in communication connection with the mainboard through the first cable.

The invention discloses a memory access method based on a memory expansion controller, a memory expansion card and equipment, and relates to the technical field of computers, and the method comprises the following steps: carrying out twice address mapping on a target access address in a memory read-write instruction through the pre-created memory expansion controller, the target access address is mapped to a hard disk storage space from a processor memory physical address space, whether the mapped access address is hit in a preset cache space or not is judged, and if the mapped access address is hit, read-write operation is directly conducted on corresponding target data in the preset cache space; and if not, performing read-write operation on the corresponding target data in the solid state disk. By means of the mode, the solid state disk can be used as the extended memory of the host, the memory extension cost is remarkably reduced, ultra-large-capacity memory extension can be achieved, accordingly, the memory access cost is reduced, and meanwhile the access speed is taken into account in the mode of presetting the cache space.

A card may include a circuit board, a cable configured to communicatively couple the circuit board to a motherboard, a connector configured to receive an expansion card to communicatively couple the expansion card to the motherboard, and a detent assembly configured to mechanically couple the card to the motherboard. The detent assembly may include a pin mechanically coupled to a surface of the circuit board and extending from the surface of the circuit board and configured to mechanically engage with a first feature of the mechanical post in order to align the card to the motherboard and a detent mechanically coupled to the pin and having an annular shape, the detent configured to mechanically engage with a second feature of the mechanical post in order to mechanically retain the card with the motherboard.

A riser cage of a computing device comprises a bracket, a riser card attached to the bracket, and a fastener attached to the bracket. The bracket is to support an expansion card. The riser card is to electrically connect the expansion card to the computing device. The fastener is to secure the riser cage to the computing device. The fastener comprises a handle, a shaft extending along a first axis, a pivot connecting the handle to the shaft, and a half-turn latch coupled to the shaft. The half-turn latch is configured to engage with a receptacle of the computing device to selectively secure the fastener to the receptacle. The handle is pivotable about the pivot between a deployed configuration and a stowed configuration, and in the stowed configuration the handle is parallel to the riser card.

The embodiment of the invention provides a server temperature regulation and control method and device, an expansion card and a storage medium, and relates to the field of hardware management.The server temperature regulation and control method comprises the steps that position information of reference equipment corresponding to a slot is determined according to position information of the slot of the expansion card, and the reference equipment is equipment connected with a server through the slot; the reference devices are in one-to-one correspondence with the slots; according to the voltage signal of the first chip of the expansion card, determining interface information of an equipment interface allocated to the slot of the expansion card, the interface information being used for indicating the equipment interface of the processor; and under the condition that the temperature information of the reference equipment connected with the equipment interface meets the preset condition, a target fan is determined according to the position information of the reference equipment, and the wind speed of the target fan is adjusted according to the temperature information of the reference equipment. By adopting the scheme, the technical problem that the server temperature regulation and control efficiency is relatively low in the related technology is solved.

A server including a motherboard, a first connector, an expansion card, a second connector and an auxiliary assembly. The first connector is disposed on the motherboard. The second connector is disposed on the expansion card and plugged with the first connector. The auxiliary assembly includes a handle and a mounting protrusion. The handle is movably disposed on the motherboard, and the mounting protrusion is disposed on the expansion card. When the handle pushes the mounting protrusion, the handle facilitates the second connector and the first connector to be plugged with or detach from each other, so as to facilitate the motherboard to be electrically connected to or electrically disconnected from the expansion card.

The invention relates to the technical field of servers, in particular to an expansion card mounting rack and a server, and relates to the technical field of servers, the expansion card mounting rack comprises a main support, the main support comprises a first supporting part and a second supporting part which are connected, and the first supporting part and the second supporting part extend in the first direction and the second direction respectively, an expansion card mounting cavity is defined; the adapter card is installed on the first supporting part, and the adapter card is provided with a slot part for one side of the expansion card to be inserted; the positioning assembly is arranged on the main support or the adapter card and used for being connected with the position to be installed so as to position the expansion card installation frame, the problem that in the related technology, the disassembly and assembly mode of a PCIe card support of a server is complex is at least solved, rapid installation and accurate positioning of the expansion card in a server case are achieved, and the installation efficiency of the server is improved. The adaptability and stability of expansion card installation are ensured, and poor contact or damage caused by vibration or movement is avoided.

The invention discloses a bandwidth allocation system and electronic equipment, and relates to the technical field of bandwidth allocation, and the bandwidth allocation system comprises a bandwidth allocation indication unit, a first connector and a processing unit which are deployed on a mainboard, and a switching unit and at least two expansion interface groups which are deployed on an expansion card, the first connector and the expansion interface group are both connected with the switching unit, and the switching unit is used for switching the connection of the first connector with the current interface group to the connection of the first connector with the target interface group in a mechanical switching mode under the switching operation of a user; the bandwidth allocation indication unit is connected with the switching unit, and the bandwidth allocation indication unit is used for outputting a bandwidth allocation signal based on the connection state of the first connector and the two expansion interface groups; and the processing unit is connected with the first connector, and the processing unit is used for carrying out bandwidth allocation based on the bandwidth allocation signal. According to the method and the device, the problems of relatively high heat dissipation requirement and cost requirement and rigid resource configuration in the prior art are solved.

A fixing assembly is suitable for being arranged on a circuit board and configured to fix an expansion card. The fixing assembly includes a body and a buckle structure. The buckle structure includes a pressing part, a buckle part, an elastic member, and a base. The pressing part is away from the circuit board. An end of the buckle part is connected to the pressing part and has an inclined surface and a blocking surface connected to each other. The blocking surface has a gap with the top surface. The elastic member is connected to another end of the buckle part. When a first end of the expansion card is connected to the connector, a second end of the expansion card slides along the inclined surface to the top surface and is fixed in the gap by being abutted by the blocking surface.

The invention provides a server heat dissipation regulation and control method and device, belongs to the technical field of server heat dissipation, and aims to solve the problems that the rotating speed of a fan is excessively increased due to a heat dissipation mode proposed in the related technology, and the temperature of an external equipment expansion card is accumulated and overheated in the initial process. The method comprises the following steps: before target firmware is started, determining a first target regulation and control parameter according to environment temperature and temperature information of an external equipment expansion card; the first target regulation and control parameter is used for regulating and controlling the rotating speed of a fan before target firmware is started; after the target firmware is started, matching first identification information corresponding to each piece of temperature information with second identification information corresponding to each piece of slot information, and determining a second target regulation and control parameter of each fan in the server at least according to an identification inconsistency condition; the second target regulation and control parameter is used for regulating and controlling the rotating speed of the fan after the target firmware is started.

A mounting assembly and a circuit board assembly. The mounting assembly configured to mount a short or long expansion card on the circuit board. The mounting assembly includes a fixed plate and a rotatable plate. The rotatable plate includes a body part, a pivot part and a fastening part. The pivot part is rotatably disposed on the fixed plate. The fastening part has a fastening hole. A pivot axis of the pivot part is spaced apart from a central axis of the fastening hole. When the fastening hole is at the first mounting position, the fastening hole is located closer to the connector than the pivot part to fix the short expansion card. When the fastening hole is at the second mounting position, the fastening hole is located farther away from the connector than the pivot part to fix the long expansion card.

The present disclosure relates to a server and a server cluster, the server comprising: computing acceleration cards, each computing acceleration card comprising at least two data interaction ports; the data interaction expansion card comprises a server internal connection port, a server external connection port group and a data interaction channel, the server internal connection port and the server external connection port group are coupled through the data interaction channel, and the server external connection port group is used for being connected with server external equipment through the OCS module. According to the method and the device, the data communication rate of the data link between the computing acceleration cards can be improved, the communication time delay is reduced, the overall computing resource utilization rate of the artificial intelligence server can be improved, and the overall computing efficiency of the artificial intelligence server and even a server cluster composed of the artificial intelligence server can be improved.

A cabinet for mounting expansion card comprises a base and a positioning module. The base defines a cavity. The expansion card is slidable into the cavity in a first direction. The positioning module comprises a positioning piece. The positioning piece is movably connected to the base in a second direction, and the second direction is substantially perpendicular to the first direction. The positioning piece comprises a latching part placed in the cavity. The expansion card defines a slot. The latching part comprises a bevel. When the expansion card slides into the cavity, the expansion card pushes the bevel to lift the latching part, and the latching part inserts into the slot to latch the expansion card when the slot is aligned with the latching part; when the latching part is pulled out from the slot, the latching part unlatches the expansion card. A server with the cabinet is also disclosed.

The present invention relates to a computing system, comprising a plurality of computing devices. Each of the computing devices is configured with a plurality of computing modules and a plurality of optical interconnect expansion cards, and each of the optical interconnect expansion cards is provided with an on-chip optical switch and at least one first optical switching unit. The optical interconnect expansion cards of the plurality of computing devices communicate by means of optical fiber connections; moreover, by means of controlling the first optical switching units and / or the on-chip optical switches, a first part of the plurality of computing devices forms a first super node, with the topology of a communication link of the first super node comprising a two-dimensional torus topology. The two-dimensional torus topology may be configured to comprise first ring topologies, where the computing devices in the first part form a one-dimensional torus in a first direction; at least two first ring topologies are arranged in a second direction; and at least some of the computing devices in the at least two first ring topologies form second ring topologies with a one-dimensional torus in the second direction, where the second direction intersects the first direction.

To prevent leakage of protection object data in a storage unit of an expansion card.SOLUTION: An information processing device includes: a first processing unit 32 that at the time of shutdown, saves, to a backup area formed outside an expansion card, protection object data stored in a first storage unit and deletes the protection object data from the first storage unit; and a second processing unit 33 that at the time of startup, reads the protection object data from the backup area and initializes the expansion card by using the read protection object data.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2

The invention discloses a calculation parameter acquisition method and device based on a DeepSpeed framework and a storage medium, and relates to the technical field of data processing. The method comprises the following steps: firstly, determining a target parameter file used for forward propagation calculation at the current calculation moment, judging whether the calculation parameter acquisition target parameter file of a framework is stored in a locked memory or a cache region, and if the calculation parameter acquisition target parameter file of the framework is stored in a calculation parameter acquisition cache region of the framework, performing forward propagation calculation; if yes, the calculation parameter obtaining target parameter file of the frame in the calculation parameter obtaining cache region of the frame is sent to the video memory, and the parameter file is read from the expansion card to the calculation parameter obtaining cache region of the frame, so that excessive occupation of the video memory is avoided, and the video card can perform calculation more efficiently.

A frame module is configured to be detachably disposed on a casing of a server and configured to secure an expansion card. One side of the expansion card includes an electrical connector portion and an engagement recessed portion arranged adjacent to each other. The frame module includes a main frame, a riser card and a fastening assembly. The main frame includes a first plate and a second plate connected to each other. The riser card is disposed on the first plate and includes a connection slot configured for the electrical connector portion to be inserted to. The fastening assembly is slidably disposed on the first plate and includes a block portion. When the fastening assembly is in a fastening position, the block portion presses against the engagement recessed portion. When the fastening assembly is in a releasing position, the block portion is removed from the engagement recessed portion.

The invention provides a method and related equipment for optimizing GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) operation based on a CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture) shared storage mechanism, and the method comprises the following steps: connecting expansion card equipment with a GPU through a PCIe (Peripheral Component Interconnect Express) interface on the GPU, and carrying out equipment identification and address space mapping processing on the GPU and the expansion card equipment to obtain storage space configuration information required by the GPU operation; performing space division and data channel establishment processing on the expansion card equipment according to the storage space configuration information to obtain a data transmission channel configuration result of GPU operation; and carrying out storage area scheduling and thread synchronization on the to-be-operated data of the GPU between the GPU and the expansion card equipment through a CUDA shared storage mechanism according to a data transmission channel configuration result until the operation process of the GPU is completed. According to the method, storage scheduling and thread synchronization of the data between the GPU and the expansion equipment are realized through recognition, space division and efficient establishment of the data channel on the GPU expansion equipment by a CUDA shared storage mechanism, so that the calculation efficiency is improved, and large-scale data processing requirements are better supported.

The present application provides an integrated memory expansion device and a computing device. The integrated memory expansion device is used for expanding memory for a server. The integrated memory expansion device comprises a case, a first circuit board, a first connection interface, a plurality of first memory slots, and a plurality of first memory expansion cards, wherein the first circuit board, the first connection interface, and the plurality of first memory slots are all arranged in the case; the plurality of first memory slots are arranged at intervals on the first circuit board; the first connection interface is electrically connected to the first circuit board; the first connection interface is exposed out of the outer surface of the case and is used for being connected to the server; the case is provided with a plurality of first inserting holes; the interior and the exterior of the case are communicated by means of each first inserting hole; each first memory expansion card passes through one first inserting hole and is detachably inserted into one first memory slot. The integrated memory expansion device can provide a large amount of memory space for an electronic device, thereby meeting the requirements of the computing device for scenarios such as big data processing.

The invention provides a computing fast interconnection converter chip, a memory access processing method and electronic equipment, and relates to the technical field of research and development of basic hardware, design and research and development of chips and the like. According to the specific implementation, the CXL Switch chip comprises at least two CPU uplink port control logic units, at least two CXL downlink port control logic units, an interconnection bus, a consistency cache control logic unit and a cache; the at least two CPU uplink port control logic units, the at least two CXL downlink port control logic units, the consistency cache control logic unit and the cache are respectively connected with the interconnection bus; wherein the consistency cache control logic unit and the cache are used for realizing at least two CPU (Central Processing Unit) chips externally connected with the CXL Switch chip, and at least two CXL memory expansion cards connected through the CXL Switch chip can be shared. According to the technology disclosed by the invention, the pooling function of the CXL can be realized, and the application range of the CXL memory expansion card is effectively enriched.

Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with a specialized antenna expansion card for EMI fingerprint characterization of target computing systems are described. In one embodiment, a method for EMI scanning using a broadband antenna expansion card installed within a target computer includes causing the target computer to execute a test pattern of computer operations. The method includes taking readings of radiofrequency EMI generated by execution of the test pattern through the broadband antenna card that is installed within a chassis of the target computer. The method includes detecting that hardware of the target computer system is behaving anomalously based on a dissimilarity between the readings of radiofrequency EMI and machine learning estimates of radiofrequency EMI for nominal operation of a reference computer system. And, the method includes generating an electronic alert that the hardware of the target computer system is behaving anomalously.