IP Library Granted Patent US 12,363,192
Granted Patent B2
US 12,363,192 · App. 18/687,581 · Granted Jul 15, 2025

Communication system, computing machine, communication method and program

Inventors: Toru Mano (Musashino, JP); Junki Ichikawa (Musashino, JP); Yukio Tsukishima (Musashino, JP); Kenji Shimizu (Musashino, JP); Hideki Nishizawa (Musashino, JP); Tomoya Hibi (Musashino, JP); Kiwami Inoue (Musashino, JP)
Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
H04L67/1097
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Patent No.
US 12,363,192
App. No.
18/687,581
Granted
Jul 15, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

This communication system comprises a plurality of computers 1, 2 that each comprise: an optical transport path control unit 14 that adjusts the number of optical transport paths between the computer itself and a connection target computer and that sets the adjusted number of optical transport paths; a remote direct memory access (RDMA) communication unit 11 that, in accordance with the number of optical transport paths 4 announced from the optical transport path control unit 14 , chunks data that is to be transferred to the connection target computer; and an RDMA control unit 16 that sets RDMA communication paths the number of which is the same as the number of the optical transport paths 4 pursuant to an instruction from the RDMA communication unit 11.

Claims (18)

1. A communication system comprising: a plurality of computing machines, wherein

the computing machines each include

an optical transmission path control unit configured to adjust a number of optical transmission paths with a computing machine that is a connection destination and set the adjusted number of optical transmission paths,

a remote direct memory access (RDMA) communication unit configured to divide data to be transferred to the computing machine that is the connection destination into data chunks according to the number of optical transmission paths reported from the optical transmission path control unit, and transmit an instruction to set RDMA communication paths, wherein each data chunk corresponds to a different RDMA communication path, and

an RDMA control unit configured to set the same number of RDMA communication paths as the number of the optical transmission paths according to the instruction from the RDMA communication unit.

2. The communication system according to claim 1 , wherein

devices in the computing machine are connected via an optical bus, and

a number of data chunks is the same as the number of optical transmission paths.

3. A computing machine comprising:

an optical transmission path control unit configured to adjust a number of optical transmission paths with a computing machine that is a connection destination and set the adjusted number of optical transmission paths;

a remote direct memory access (RDMA) communication unit configured to divide data to be transferred to the computing machine that is the connection destination into data chunks according to the number of optical transmission paths reported from the optical transmission path control unit, and transmit an instruction to set RDMA communication paths, wherein each data chunk corresponds to a different RDMA communication path; and

an RDMA control unit configured to set the same number of RDMA communication paths as the number of optical transmission paths according to the instruction from the RDMA communication unit.

4. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program for causing a computer to function as the computing machine according to claim 3 .

5. A communication method performed by a communication system comprising a plurality of computing machines,

wherein each computing machine performs operations comprising:

adjusting a number of optical transmission paths with a computing machine that is a connection destination, setting the adjusted number of optical transmission paths, and reporting the set number of optical transmission paths,

dividing data to be transferred to the computing machine that is the connection destination into data chunks according to the reported number of optical transmission paths, wherein each data chunk corresponds to a different remote direct memory access (RDMA) communication path, and

setting the same number of RDMA communication paths as the reported number of optical transmission paths.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Dec 5, 2025
From: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
To: NTT, INC.
Reel/Frame 073861/0410 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 24, 2024
From: MANO, TORU; ICHIKAWA, JUNKI; TSUKISHIMA, YUKIO; SHIMIZU, KENJI; NISHIZAWA, HIDEKI; HIBI, TOMOYA; INOUE, KIWAMI
To: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 069003/0185 →
Continuity (1)
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