Backboard Interface Segmentation for Blade Server Compatibility
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing server systems face difficulties in flexible configuration due to incompatibility between normal blades and multi-processing blades, making it challenging to meet cost-effective and high-performance requirements.
Innovation Solution
A server design with a backboard featuring both Cluster Switch and SMP Switch interfaces, allowing for the coexistence and dynamic adjustment of normal and multi-processing blades, enabling flexible system configurations and minimizing user costs.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If normal blade-specific interfaces and wiring are used, then normal blades can be connected, but multi-processing blades cannot be connected due to incompatibility
Solution Approach 1:
The backboard is designed with universal interfaces and wiring that can accommodate both normal blades and multi-processing blades. The Cluster Switch interfaces and SMP Switch interfaces are integrated on the same backboard, allowing a single backboard design to support multiple blade types without requiring separate specialized backboards for each blade type.
Solution Approach 2:
The backboard is segmented into different interface types (Cluster Switch interfaces and SMP Switch interfaces), where each interface type can connect to specific blade types. This segmentation allows flexible configuration where normal blades connect via Cluster Switch interfaces and multi-processing blades connect via SMP Switch interfaces, enabling compatibility without forcing a unified interface design.
2Adaptability or versatility
If a single interface type is used on the backboard, then device complexity is reduced, but adaptability to different blade types is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The backboard serves multiple functions by integrating both Cluster Switch interfaces and SMP Switch interfaces on the same device. This multi-functionality allows the backboard to support both normal blades and multi-processing blades, eliminating the need for separate specialized backboards while maintaining adaptability to different blade types.
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AI summary
The present invention relates to the field of communications, in particular, to a server for solving the problem related to the incompatibility between normal blades and multi-processing blades in a conventional server. The server according to an embodiment of the invention includes a backboard, on which backboard wiring and a first slot are disposed. At least two second slots are further disposed on the backboard. Both a first interface configured to be connected to a normal blade and a second interface configured to be connected to a multi-processing blade are disposed on each of the second slots, the first interface being connected to a corresponding Cluster Switch interface disposed on the first slot via the backboard wiring, and the second interface being interconnected directly via the backboard wiring or being connected to a corresponding Symmetrical Multi-Processing Switch interface disposed on the first slot via the backboard wiring.