FACILITATING, AT LEAST IN PART, BY CIRCUITRY, ACCESSING OF AT LEAST ONE CONTROLLER COMMAND INTERFACE

• Main Authors: MCGOWAN STEVEN B, WILLKE THEODORE L, LOUZOUN ELIEL, SHARP ROBERT O, TAMIR ELIEZER, WOOD DONALD E, WILCOX MATTHEW R, FRIEDMAN BEN-ZION
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 20.08.2015
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; ELECTRICITY; PHYSICS; TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHICCOMMUNICATION

An embodiment may include circuitry to facilitate, at least in part, a first network interface controller (NIC) in a client to be capable of accessing, via a second NIC in a server that is remote from the client and in a manner that is independent of an operating system environment in the server, at least one command interface of another controller of the server. The command interface may include at least one controller command queue. Such accessing may include writing at least one queue element to the at least one command queue to command the another controller to perform at least one operation associated with the another controller. The another controller may perform the at least one operation in response, at least in part, to the at least one queue element. Many alternatives, variations, and modifications are possible.