Disaggregated Resource Map Construction for Coherency

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing technologies fail to effectively address the challenges of building and accessing disaggregated resources due to issues with unreliable networks, resource consumer and node independence, resource coherency, and fine-level access, particularly in distributed computing environments where resources are decentralized and operate without a centralized controller.

Innovation Solution

The solution involves resource nodes providing information to consumers, allowing them to create detailed maps of the disaggregated resources, ensuring fine-level access and coherency, with resource consumers constructing their own views and accessing resources independently without relying on extraneous systems, and using split resource maps for granular access.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If resources are disaggregated into individual resource nodes without a centralized controller, then scalability and cost are improved, but network reliability and resource coherency deteriorate due to inherent network unreliability and latency

Engineering Contradiction:

ImprovescalabilityVSAvoidresource coherency

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the resource map into multiple distributed copies stored across different resource nodes. Each resource node maintains a complete or partial copy of the resource map, eliminating the need for a centralized controller while ensuring that any node can provide the necessary mapping information, thus maintaining reliability through distribution.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent implements feedback mechanisms where resource nodes continuously exchange information about resource availability and map consistency. This allows the distributed system to detect and correct coherency issues, ensuring that all nodes maintain synchronized views of the resource state despite network latency and potential failures.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

2Productivity

If resource consumers construct their own views of disaggregated resources, then independence and responsiveness are improved, but the complexity of managing multiple different views deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

ImproveresponsivenessVSAvoidview management complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent employs copying by having each resource consumer maintain a local copy of the resource map. This local copy enables consumers to access resource information independently without querying multiple nodes, thus improving responsiveness while the standardized copy format reduces the complexity of managing different views.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #26Copying

Solution Approach 2:

The patent enforces homogeneity by standardizing the resource map structure and format across all resource nodes and consumers. This uniform structure allows any consumer to interpret the map consistently, reducing the complexity that would otherwise arise from managing heterogeneous views of the disaggregated resources.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #33Homogeneity

3Measurement precision

If fine-level granularity access is implemented below resource device level, then access precision is improved, but the difficulty of maintaining complete and detailed maps deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveaccess granularityVSAvoidmap completeness

Core Design Contradiction:

Measurement precisionVSDifficulty of detecting and measuring

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces an additional dimensional layer to the resource map structure, organizing fine-grained access information in a hierarchical or multi-dimensional format. This allows detailed mapping information to be structured in a way that is easier to manage and verify, reducing the difficulty of maintaining complete maps while preserving fine-level access precision.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

4Productivity

If resource nodes operate independently without out-of-band communication, then performance and simplicity are improved, but the ability to maintain coherency across nodes deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

ImproveperformanceVSAvoidcoherency maintenance

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent ensures continuity of useful action by designing the resource map copying and synchronization mechanisms to operate continuously in the background without interrupting the primary resource access operations. This allows nodes to maintain coherency through continuous information exchange while preserving high performance for actual resource operations.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #20Continuity of useful action

Data Source

PatentUSRE48894E1Disaggregated resources and access methods

Publication Date: 2022.01.11 INTELLECTUAL VENTURES I LLC

AI summary

Disaggregated resources distributed among resource nodes provide access to resource consumers by offering resource node information to the resource consumers. Resource node information supplied by each individual resource node comprises incomplete information with respect to the complete disaggregated resource. Resource consumers collect resource node information to create maps of the disaggregated resource, ensure coherency, or manage the disaggregated resource.