OFFLOADING OF COMPUTATION FOR RACK LEVEL SERVERS AND CORRESPONDING METHODS AND SYSTEMS
A distributed server system for handling multiple networked applications is disclosed. Systems can include at least one main processor; a plurality of offload processors connected to a memory bus; an arbiter connected to each of the plurality of offload processors, the arbiter configured to schedule resource priority for instructions or data received from the memory bus; and a virtual switch respectively connected to the main processor and the plurality of offload processors using the memory bus, with the virtual switch capable of receiving memory read/write data over the memory bus, and further directing at least some memory read/write data to the arbiter.
1 . A distributed server system for handling multiple networked applications, comprising:
at least one main processor;
a plurality of offload processors connected to a memory bus;
an arbiter connected to each of the plurality of offload processors, the arbiter configured to schedule resource priority for instructions or data received from the memory bus; and
a virtual switch respectively connected to the main processor and the plurality of offload processors using the memory bus, with the virtual switch capable of receiving memory read/write data over the memory bus, and further directing at least some memory read/write data to the arbiter.
2 . The distributed server system of claim 1 , wherein the offload processors provide support for a web server and the at least one main processor provides support for at least one of server side script engine, a web page rendering engine, or a database engine.
3 . The distributed server system of claim 1 , wherein the offload processors provide support for multimedia streaming data and the at least one main processor provides support for an overlay control.
4 . The distributed server system of claim 1 , wherein the offload processors provide support for a proxy server.
5 . The distributed server system of claim 1 , wherein the offload processors are connected to memory, and further include a snoop control unit for coherent read out and write in to memory.
6 . The distributed server system of claim 1 , wherein the offload processors are connected to memory to permit zero-overhead context switching between threads of a networked application.
7 . The distributed server system of claim 1 , wherein the offload processors are connected to memory and a computational FPGA, all being mounted together on XIMM module configured for insertion into a DIMM socket.