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EAST LANSING, Mich. -- Michigan State basketball coach Tom Izzo continues to struggle with the decision to stick with the Spartans or leave the program to coach the Cleveland Cavaliers.
A source close to Izzo, who returned to his basketball camp for a second day, told ESPN.com's Andy Katz that the coach is pondering whether this is his last opportunity to coach an NBA team, among other issues.
When he left his office just after 6:30 p.m. ET, he still hadn't announced his plans. A source told the Cleveland Plain Dealer's Brian Windhorst that there was a Michigan State players meeting called for 6:45 p.m. ET.
Izzo, 55, also is contemplating whether, unlike the unsuccessful college-to-NBA transitions of Rick Pitino, Mike Montgomery and Tim Floyd in recent years, he can be the one college coach who can be successful in the NBA.
A person familiar with the situation told The Associated Press early Monday night that free agent-to-be LeBron James had not spoken to Izzo about the Cavaliers' coaching vacancy and didn't plan to get involved in the team's search.
The Cavs job could be a good fit for Izzo even without James, who is unlikely to comment on his future before free agency begins July 1.
Izzo, who has taken Michigan State to six Final Fours and won a national championship, is familiar with Cavs owner Dan Gilbert, a Michigan State alumnus. Kentucky coach John Calipari, a former coach of the New Jersey Nets, has advised Izzo that if he leaves Michigan State for the pros, he should do so if he feels comfortable with a team's owner.
Izzo also could make $6 million -- doubling his Michigan State salary -- by going to the Cavaliers.
"The question is, how much of a leap of faith does Coach want to take?" the source close to Izzo told Katz. "Does he go for seven or more years at Michigan State, or does he do the pro thing? He's not going to know about LeBron."
The source said that Izzo's decision, if it continues to drag, could affect recruiting for not just Izzo but also the coaches who would be candidates to replace him in East Lansing.
It appears Gilbert, Michigan State president Lou Anna Simon and athletic director Mark Hollis aren't putting any pressure on Izzo with an imminent timetable.
The media also seemed to give Izzo some space Tuesday, a day after some reporters staked out his office hoping to get the scoop or even a clue nine days after the first of many reports linked him to the Cavs.
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Phoenix Suns guard Jason Richardson, who played for Michigan State's 2000 national championship team, has talked to him recently and doesn't know what Izzo will do.
"It's a tough decision," Richardson said in a telephone interview with the AP on Tuesday. "I can understand why he's trying to take his time with it."
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Where do you begin with Michael Moorcock? His career and background range as far and wide as his characters do across the multiverse. Novelist, short story writer, editor (of New Worlds and other publications), journalist, musician -- and, in the case of this column, a very gracious interviewee. His detailed answers below, like those found on his website, Moorcock's Miscellany, seem designed to help enthusiasts and scholars alike to a better understanding of his multiverse.
Moorcock's works -- which include the Elric and Jerry Cornelius series, "London Bone," "Behold the Man" and much more (the SF Site has a good overview) -- are celebrated by the fine San Francisco-based, indie publisher Tachyon in the new anthology "The Best of Michael Moorcock" (Tachyon: 404 pp., $14.95 paper) edited by John Davey with Ann and Jeff Vandermeer.
With so much of Hollywood devoted to fantasy and science fiction today, there did seem, after all, to be one place to begin -- with Elric's future on the big screen.
Q: On your blog, you talk about an Elric movie. What is the status of this movie?
A: Universal has an option on it. We were moving ahead rapidly with Chris and Paul, the Weitz brothers, and Universal until they had a couple of big failures at the box office, on which they'd spent too much money -- both fantasy movies. This gave them pause. Did those fail because they were about antiheroes (they weren't really)? Wasn't Elric an antihero ? While they were paused, Chris and Paul had to keep working, so that's what happened. We expect, if all is well, to start work in earnest next year, though Chris and Paul will probably only be producing. We have a script, and I think this might be a better psychic time, if not an economic one, to be doing the movie.
A "better psychic time" -- that seems to be the case for Solomon Kane, a fantastic Howard character. He finally has a movie coming, directed by Michael J. Bassett (just interviewed at Comic Con). When I heard about that, I thought, "It's about time." Why do you feel "it's about time" for Elric?
We're winning wars and wondering why it doesn't feel like victory. Losing certainty in our assumed national virtues. Staring at Chaos and hoping we can find a way to support Law. Pulling hope out of despair. We're in a reflective mood and questioning our values now, I think. Kane was, if you like, Howard's most reflective character. Elric began to question his forefathers, knowing they put him on a road that was no longer right for the nation. Kane is about changing values and the end of empire. Elric never is quite certain what he's done or why. I think we're probably wondering about such things a bit at the moment, too.
Are you surprised that it has taken a long time for Hollywood to come around and realize Elric's saga is perfect for the big screen?
No. I had many offers from the mid-'70s on but turned them all down. I didn't want Elric to be a movie until the effects became secondary to the story. "Lord of the Rings" effects showed this was possible at last. If something goes wrong with the Weitz project, I'll wait until others I trust come along. There have never been many. I don't want Elric to appear on the screen unless he's in the hands of smart people.
In the new anthology, a brief introduction to a short story about Elric says that he was created as a response to Howard's Conan. Is that how one of your most famous characters came about?
Not exactly. When asked to write the original stories -- which I accepted as a working commission like any other job in those days -- I decided to try to do something a bit different, especially from the Conan stories, which were the benchmark in those days. There was very little "fantasy" -- Tolkien was still regarded as a bit marginal, like Morrison or E.R. Eddison, and I didn't want to write like him, either. There's a touch of Peake there, but I was a great admirer of a 1930s pulp character called Zenith the Albino, and I was working on a study of the 19th century Gothic novel, publishing bits of it in Science Fantasy, which the editor consciously modeled on Weird Tales and consciously tried to make as literary as possible. (I was the rough end, paid two guineas a word while Ballard and Aldiss were long-established enough to get two pounds, ten shillings!)
I pinched many of the aspects of Zenith and married them to characteristics found in such classics as Charles Maturin's "Melmoth the Wanderer" and so on. Americans like Poul Anderson were my main contemporary influence. The character was infused, of course, with my own teenage angst (I was 19 when he came into existence and 21 when he first appeared in print) and my own attitudes and complexes, so he quickly turned into the character who became so popular and influential. A version of myself. I wanted him to be popular, of course, so didn't forget the bits about Freud and Jung in that study (part of which saw print as the study "Wizardry and Wild Romance").
It makes perfect sense that, in "Behold the Man," there are only two people who could ever say that they belong to "the world to come and the world that is" and be completely truthful: a Messiah or a time-traveler. What was the origin of that story?
Sitting at my kitchen table around Easter time, discussing demagogues and how the public focuses on them, turns them into instruments of the common will. I came up with a number of examples, including Hitler. I come from an almost wholly secular background and have no quarrel with religion. I was very surprised that I got really good reviews from the Christian and Jewish press as well as the heavy U.K. weeklies and absolutely terrifying letters from American readers, mostly fundamentalists, who threatened to kill me. I grew up in a world which saw religion as having died out mostly in the 19th century, so I was very surprised when I first came to the U.S.! I have to live part of the year in Europe or I think I'd go crazy.
You've said that Jerry Cornelius (who makes a very brief appearance in the new anthology) is "as much a technique as a character" -- what does that mean? Do you regard him less as a fully dimensional character than as a cipher?
He is someone learning to exist, through all kinds of strategies, in our contemporary world. I wanted a character who was a bit like Elric (me) but dealing with modern mythology of various kinds. That's why the first few chapters of "The Final Programme" echo the first Elric story, "The Dreaming City." I had come to think that "fantasy" of the kind I was writing was able to deal with big philosophical issues but not the specifics of modern life. I wanted a character who was able to exist in a lot of different contexts in contemporary cities, especially London. I wanted to put London in her modern mythological context, which I then extended elsewhere -- rural America, Vietnam and so on. The first story which tried this was "The Deep Fix," which was about as close to Burroughs as I've ever written and which was intended as a kind of bridge for a reader between the fantasy they were reading in the magazine and what I was enjoying in the Olympia Press Burroughs books.
Cornelius, however, was the first work in which I felt I'd found my real literary voice. He is a character. I think of him as a fully rounded character playing an infinite number of roles. But he is also a device, a technique -- a way of examining the world.
"The Birds of the Moon" appears for the first time in print in this anthology -- what is this story about and what happened to it, why didn't it see the light of print sooner?
It appeared as a booklet, privately published by John Davey, soon after it didn't appear in the New Statesman. I was asked to write it by the NS (U.K. equivalent to the Nation) as part of an issue they planned to sell at Glastonbury. I wrote regularly for the NS during that period. Then there was an editorial shift, and I gather a bunch of neo-Marxists took over who thought the Glastonbury issue was frivolous. So they dumped that issue (or most of it), and that was the end of that.
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A new study by the Chronicle of Philanthropy places Utah as the most charitable state in the country.
"The Mormon tradition of tithing is a primary reason residents of this state well outpace those in every other place in America," the bi-weekly newspaper wrote on its website.
As the study shows, there is a strong connection between religion and charitable donations.
"Regions of the country that are deeply religious are more generous than those that are not," the study concludes.
In fact, the two most generous states, according to the findings, have high concentrations of people who identify themselves as religious. While Utah is well-known for its Latter-day Saint population — roughly 58 percent identify with the faith — the state that comes in second, Mississippi, was reported by Gallup in March to be the most religious state in America.
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When religious donations are discounted, however, the results change dramatically. For example, while New York currently sits at number 17, it would jump to the No. 2 slot if only secular donations were considered.
Another important finding in the study is a reconfirmation that those with the most tend to give the least.
"Middle-class Americans give a far bigger share of their discretionary income to charities than the rich," the study finds. "Households that earn $50,000 to $75,000 give an average of 7.6 percent of their discretionary income to charity, compared with an average of 4.2 percent for people who make $100,000 or more."
As The Atlantic pointed out in April, the two trends are likely connected.
"Wealth affects not only how much money is given but to whom it is given," Ken Stern wrote in his article "Why the rich don't give to charity."
"The poor tend to give to religious organizations and social-service charities, while the wealthy prefer to support colleges and universities, arts organizations, and museums."
See the list of charitable donations per state.
JJ Feinauer is a graduate of Southern Virginia University and an intern for the Moneywise page on DeseretNews.com. Email: firstname.lastname@example.com, Twitter: @johnorjj.
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Muscle Car Driving Experience
CMC-NorthEast Stadium • Kannapolis, NC
October 24, 25, or 26
What you get
- 15- or 25-Mile Muscle Car Driving Experience
- Drive a Camaro, Mustang, Stingray, GTO, or Challenger
- Includes a CD of Professional Photos and the Option to Bring a Friend With You
- You'll Receive Expert Instruction and an Optimal Driving Route
Golden Era Motors knows what it takes to ignite your classic car fantasies into realities. Use this deal and get a silver or gold package that puts you behind the wheel of a Camaro, Mustang, Stingray, GTO, or Challenger for 15 or 25 miles of open highway. On top of driving the muscle car of your dreams, you'll receive safety, handling, and performance instruction from an expert, and you'll be provided an optimal driving route to help you get the most out of your ride and a CD of professional photos so you can remember the experience. Start cruising in your favorite car at CMC-NorthEast Stadium -- and bring along a passenger to ride with you!
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2943 German Church Rd.
Looking for back to school clothes? Common household items? Come to Hilltop Community Church, 2943 German Church Rd on Thursday, Sept. 8 from 9 to 5. The church is just past Wal mart.
This is a donations only garage sale, with proceeds to benefit a village in Honduras the church is ministering to.
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One hundred three-year-old Agrace HospiceCare patient Marie Hunt received her high school diploma Friday.
Marie Hunt is a life-long Spring Green resident. She said she had no way of getting to and from high school so she stayed home after 8th grade and helped raised her eight younger brothers and sisters.
She would have been a graduate of the River Valley High School's class of 1928.
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Reservations Kick Off from August 15 at The Laslett in Notting Hill
We're getting close to the midway point of 2015, and so far we only have one confirmed opening from our list of five London hotels to watch this year (that's the M by Montcalm Shoreditch). Things are looking up this week though, starting with online reservations going live for stays from August 15 at The Laslett Notting Hill, the new townhouse hotel we told you about late last year.
We can see rates starting from Ł155 ($244) on a Sunday night for a Spare Room Double, which range from 193-203 sq ft. That's a prepaid rate, which goes up to Ł255 ($400) on a Saturday night. Largest rooms are Master Bedroom Suites at 313-360 sq ft, which on a Saturday in August is Ł350 ($550) a night when prepaid. Spare Room Singles are the entry-level category but as the name implies, sleep only one.
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Five Reasons Why Celebs Stay at the SoHo Metropolitan in Toronto
If you look up the SoHo Metropolitan (part of Preferred Hotels & Resorts) on a tourism site, chances are pretty good that you won't find it there. And if you ask your airport taxi driver to take you to take you to the hotel, you might have to give him/her the address in order to make it. But do you know who does know about the hotel? Film and music celebs, that's who.
We checked out the hotel on a recent trip to Corktown (AKA Toronto, and for you history fiends, the nickname came about from an old historic neighborhood in the center of the city) because we wanted to know what draws all of those bright shining stars to the hotel? Following are the five main reasons why we think this is their pied-ŕ-terre of choice. (With more pics in the Photo Gallery!).
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Bali's Hotel Scene Gets Even Bigger With Opening of Alaya Resort Kuta
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We recently told you about a bunch 'o new hotel openings coming to Bali and now there's one more to add to the never-ending list: the Alaya Resort Kuta.
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This is Indonesian-owned Alaya Hotels & Resorts' second hotel in Bali (the first one is in Ubud) and the first artsy, upmarket boutique hotel to enter one of Bali's, let's say, more colorful neighborhoods. In fact, it's reputed to be THE hotel opening of the year in the party-hearty South Kuta resort district.
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This Spanish Hotel Has a 'Spa Sommelier' to Help Guests Pick Their Treatment
The historic Abadía Retuerta LeDomaine hotel is located in a restored 12th-century abbey and winery in Spain's Duero winegrowing region just one hour by train from Madrid, and we think that they want to get you a wee bit tipsy for your next spa treatment.
The hotel is opening its new El Santuario Spa on July 1 and its signature oenotherapy treatment menu includes a Spa Sommelier to help choose the treatment that's right for you.
And this is how it works.
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Another Reasonable Hotel in Bath: The Halcyon Apartments
The owners of the Halcyon Apartments are Bath's toned-down version of Sam Nazarian: They own The Halcyon Hotel, the Halcyon Apartments (which is really what we're talking about here today), Circo Bar & Lounge (at The Halcyon), The Basement – a hopping nightclub, The Porter Bar and Lounge, and Clayton's Kitchen, which is headed up by yet another Bath-based Michelin-starred chef, Rob Clayton (which begs the question: Do all Michelin chefs move to Bath?).
These hotel and lounge mini moguls opened the Halcyon Apartments, consisting of one two-bedroom and six one-bedroom suites, in a Georgian townhouse conveniently located on George Street, at the very foot of Bath's main shopping street that also leads to its most well-known attractions.
The suites are done in a comfortable chic style that you can book for one night or 100 nights (online, though, you can only book for up to 14 days) so if you're looking for a long-stay option or just want to spread out for a few days with the family, this is the place for you. (If you're looking for a room-room you can book into The Halcyon hotel, found at the other end of the historic area on South Parade.)
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A Peek Inside Bath's Boutique Abbey Hotel
A stop at the Abbey Hotel's Allium Brasserie for dinner one night prompted us to pop in the next day for an impromptu tour of this three-star arty, contemporary hotel. What this fateful stop proved to us once and for all is that many three-stars in Bath have pretty much everything you need for a comfortable stay and don't charge you an arm-and-leg for it. (See also our piece on The Queensberry Hotel as a case in point.)
The hotel has 60 rooms (when we walked through last fall, the rumor was that there were plans for expansion to 99) set in a row of three 270-year-old townhouses. Situated close to shopping, restaurants, the Roman Baths, the Thermae Bath and Spa and Bath Abbey, you're in really good company location-wise.
All rooms are decorated in a bright and sunny modern style, with a hint of English garden design evident. Light oak furniture, houndstooth and plaid patterns on the beds and windows, and original artwork make up the décor. Rooms also carry bespoke Hypnos beds, iPads, free WiFi and REN toiletries.
Bathrooms are kinda plain Jane but they're in the process of being reno'ed and will be completed by November.
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The Quirky and Quaint Queensberry Hotel in Bath
The Queensberry Hotel is one of those small hotels made up of several townhouses – in this case, four Georgian ones – that is nicely designed in a contemporary way but with some little oddities added in that only seem to properly come from the British.
Things like having an elevator that jerks and hesitates like it's not going to make it, and moves so slow you'll probably beat it if you take the stairs. We used it as an opportunity to grab a few winks on the way up and down.
Then there's the oddly placed monkey statue set on the modern bar.
And stairs that seem to come out of nowhere.
And the bulldog pillows.
The thoroughly surprising picturesque walled courtyard in the back.
The antique dresser that we could open to put our clothes in but then couldn't get them back out.
And, finally, the best meal we had in Bath, hands-down.
All of this serves to create an oddly satisfying stay where you feel like you're privy to a place whose eccentricities perhaps outweigh your own.
We certainly do have pics in the photo gallery!
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The Spectator Hotel Will Welcome Guests to Charleston This Summer
Things are heating up in Charleston, and we don't mean just the temperature, as the race for hotel openings continues. Last November, we reported several hotels in the works and about a year ago we highlighted one in particular that was off and running.
The Spectator Hotel, in Charleston's French Quarter, is now preparing for a July opening. In fact, just in time for July 4th with a two-night offering.
The hotel's web site shows a first available date as July 4, with a 2-day minimum at $594 per night; after that, rates start at $349.
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An Inside Look at Hotel Schweizerhof Bern in Switzerland
The last hotel on our ramble through Switzerland takes us to the country's capital of Bern and the uptown chic hotel, the Hotel Schweizerhof Bern (part of Leading Hotels of the World and Swiss Deluxe Hotels).
This 99-room property's been around for more than 150 years and in 2005 the hotel shut down for a major reno (you know the story: you're a new owner so you absolutely have to re-decorate) and, six years and 50 million Swiss Francs later, ta-da! Now it's a stylin' five-star superior property.
Designed by Maria Vafiadis from MKV Design in London, our 410 sq ft Deluxe King Room was decorated in earthy taupes and grays with dramatic stainless steel and black-and-white glass bathrooms. Floors were done in herringbone oak which kept the room warm in feel and the view was of the rooftops of the Old Town (a UNESCO World Heritage Site). It had the feel of a luxe pied-ŕ-terre.
Room perks include the minibar with its complimentary beer and soft drinks, a Nespresso machine and kettle, free WiFi, locally-made comfy linens, a Japanese soaking tub AND a shower, a window in the bathroom that opens and has the same aforementioned view, and Bulgari White Tea toiletries (this writer's fave of the Bulgari line).
See the rest of the hotel pics in the image gallery!
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Sweet Suites: The Adara Suites at the Park Weggis Hotel Near Lucerne
Originally opened as the Hotel Bellevue in the oldie days of 1875, the Park Weggis hotel (part of Swiss Deluxe Hotels) – on Switzerland's Lake Lucerne – has definitely renovated since that time. One of its latest renos, completed in 2007 (they also renovated some rooms in the main building in 2011), was to add ten uber-modern Adara Suites and this is where our story starts.
Many of the luxury hotels in Switzerland are beautiful, yes, but tend to lean towards a more traditional elegance. What strikes us about these suites, which brings the room count up to 52 at this boutique Relais & Chateaux property, is their modernity.
We stayed in an Adara Deluxe Junior Suite – the Adara ones come in Deluxe Junior Suites and then Suites – which was about 70 sq m (750 sq ft) and we'll tell ya, the green-tinged black marble bathroom took up about half of that space. If your idea of relaxing is to set your one-touch mood lighting to "evening," hang out in the deep soaking tub in the middle of your bathroom with a glass of prosecco, and then shower under the Dornbracht Bigrain rain shower using the Bulgari Red Tea toiletries (surprisingly hard to come by and, in case you're wondering, we did take them home with us), then this is the luxe crash pad for you.
There are so many more pics in the photo gallery!
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Going Small In London Hotels: Artist Residence Pimlico
Last September, we told you that amidst the big splash made by hotel openings such as The Hoxton Holborn and Mondrian at Sea Containers, London also welcomed a petite property in the form of Artist Residence Pimlico, just touching the double-digit room count with a total of ten accommodations.
We wandered down Pimlico's "grid" (a range of blocks by planner Thomas Cubitt, now a conservation area) to get a better understanding of what being a resident (artist or otherwise) at Artist Residence would be like – here's what we found.
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Hotel Gotham Has Batted into Manchester
Forget Hotel Football, this is the Manchester opening we've been most excited about this year – Hotel Gotham, which opened last week in the old Midland Bank building on King Street.
The banking theme runs through the hotel (as well as the Gotham City theme, thesexy Downton theme and the "sexiest hotel in Europe" theme), according to Mancunian Matters, with moneybags on the laundry bags, walls embossed with typewriters and "gold ingot toiletry stands" – for real.


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Dr. Bruckner was voted "Top Doctors" in Seattle Metropolitan Magazine (2012)
Nearly 4,500 physicians, nurses and physician assistants in King, Kitsap and Snohomish counties nominated colleagues they would choose to treat themselves and their loved ones.
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Dr. Bruckner was voted "Top Doctors" in Seattle Magazine (2013).
Surveys were mailed to physicians in King, Pierce, Snohomish and Kitsap counties. The survey asked physicians to name the provider they would seek out or recommend to loved ones.
News Release Medical School Creighton University in Omaha Nebraska Residency Naval Regional Medical Center, Oakland, California Fellowship Musculoskeletal Oncology at the University of Washington and Seattle Children's Hospital, Seattle, Washington Board Certifications Orthopaedic Surgery SpecialtyHip Arthroscopy Joint Replacement Knee Orthopaedic Oncology
Dr. Bruckner did both his undergraduate and graduate work at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska, graduating summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Mathematics and earning magna cum laude honors from the medical school. He completed his residency and served as a clinical instructor in orthopaedics with the U.S. Navy. Dr. Bruckner did his fellowship training in Seattle at Children's Hospital and the University of Washington. While at U.W., he was an associate professor in the Department of Orthopaedics, served as Director of the hip and knee replacement service and developed the total-joint fellowship program.
He has received numerous honors, awards and peer recognition. He was Chairman of the Overlake Hospital Department of Orthopaedics from 2006 through 2010.
Dr. Bruckner is married with three grown sons. He is an avid gardener, musician and enjoys both snow and water skiing.
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Quran Dictionary
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Quran Dictionary is a software to look at the meaning of Quran words in English. User can search in English or Arabic. It features all Arabic words of Quran and their meaning in English.
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- Language: English
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Compatibility: Requires iOS 3.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.


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Patriot Rail buys Virginia repair facility
Patriot Rail LLC, a Jacksonville railroad, is growing its presence across the country — buying the bankrupt assets of Alderman Railcar Services Inc.
The purchase, which was finalized Dec. 31 and announced today, includes a railcar repair and cleaning facility located in Central Virginia. The facility is expected to be operational in February.
The facility, which will have the new name Blue Ridge Railcar Repair LLC, is located in Keysville, Virginia — 16 miles from the Norfolk Southern railway interchange via the Buckingham Branch Railroad (BB).
The shop is a M-1003 AAR certified railcar repair facility with 21 acres of land, paint and blast capabilities, and 11,000 feet of track capacity which allows for up to 130 "repair in progress" cars to be stored at any given time, according to a news release. Blue Ridge will repair, clean and paint a wide array of railcar types including boxcars, hoppers, gondolas and flatcars.
"We are excited about this investment, as it supports Patriot Rail's long-term strategy to expand the mechanical repair services within the rail industry," said President and CEO, John Fenton, in a news release. "Our operational strategy for Blue Ridge is designed to provide fleet owners with a network that delivers consistent, high-quality and responsive maintenance services that will reduce overall fleet downtime."
With an expected shortage of rail repair facilities over the next several years, Patriot plans to use the facility as a foundation to grow additional repair facilities, according to the release.
Jacksonville-based Patriot Rail currently owns and operates 13 short line freight railroads comprising approximately 500 total rail miles across 13 states.
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Zionist propaganda merchant Danny Cohen, BBC director of television, defends his HUGE salary
Why is the BBC Children In Need sitting on a Ł90million fortune? BBC stashes sum away in investment portfolio instead of handing it out
Make no mistake -- the BBC will NOT like this video
Mysterious deaths at the BBC
Murdered Jill Dando raised alarm about 'paedo ring at BBC'
Paedo protecting BBC's vicious MALE apartheid style propaganda
Paedo protecting BBC struggle to remove their tongue from the royal arse
BBC TV Licensing thugs harassing and defrauding yet another elderly pensioner 76yo David Ambrose
BBC platforms for whinging 'victim status' feminists like Julia Gillard
Lawyer controlled BBC pushing the mortgage scams
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A special form of secured loan where the purpose of the loan must be specified to the lender, to purchase assets that must be fixed (not movable) property such as a house or piece of farm land.
A fixed asset ensures it can be seized with ease by the crooks pushing these loans like the crooked bankers and building societies along with the crooked judges and lawyers only to happy to relieve you of those FIXED assets that they can steal with total impunity.
This is a centuries old racket that needs CULLED. They force you to pay for 25 years into the bank vaults for a house that takes weeks to build and then you have to be extremely lucky not to have some issue that ensures they can thieve your home back especially the Divorce Industrial Complex that has been finely tuned to give them ALL the excuses they need to kick you out into the street.
Ask any man about home ownership that ended up homeless thanks to the evil bastards who have organised the biggest most lucrative corrupt scam on the planet. Many who end up DEAD trying to fight the masonic gangsters who control these evil schemes pushed over the edge by the psychological games they play with anyone who is deluded into believing they OWN property.
BBC Norman Smith calls Nigel Farage a CUNT
Male presenters disappear from feminist run BBC Breakfast News
BBC hacked by ISIS?
The BBC Paedo Protection Racket Run By Satanic Freemasons
Have the BBC finally learnt their lesson over Jimmy Savile?
Crimes That Shook Britain Jimmy Saville
Jeremy Clarkson protected by his lodge buddies at Chipping Norton for to long?
Jeremy Clarkson on public sector strikes The One Show - November 30th 2011 claiming they should all be shot
Clarkson is the stereotypical BBC presenter sitting in his opulent surroundings of Chipping Norton, paid by the British TV licence payers and neighbours with the Prime Minister David Cameron and former Murdoch Moll Rebekah Brooks and yards from Chipping Norton golfing set and Evenlode Lodge 6535 top freemason haunt that dominates all proceedings in and around the upper class twats who think buying a house in that area makes them UNTOUCHABLE.
Clarkson has been seen cruising around on a jetski emblazoned with masonic emblems so there is NO DENYING he is one of them and happy to shove it in peoples faces and the MAIN reason he is , despite endless distasteful statements, still working for the BBC or at least until the latest disciplinary hearing is settled.
The deluded followers of Clarkson seem to think it is Clarkson who makes the show rather than the show made Clarkson who has been allowed to provide the tory fascists with endless back up when, during the nurses strike Clarkson suggested in a BBC interview they should be hauled out into the street in front of their families and shot. Now for anyone with any modicum of humanity to hear such extremes from a bastard, who like Jimmy Savile lived the high life on the millions the BBC paid him to ponce across the globe living a life of opulence while smearing , on behalf of his well heeled tory / masonic pals in Chipping Norton at the peasants as if they are not worthy.
Clarkson is there as a reinforcer to the nasty bastards running the country to line the pockets of the few and like Savile, who ranted endlessly about Thatcher and the Queen, Clarkson is there with his endless innuendo's to back up the fascist scum who have been allowed to shit on the peasants from a great height as the scumbag drives away into the sunset with his luxury car paid by the very peasants Clarkson is allowed to sneer at, at every opportunity he can. Long overdue the boot but for the freemasons running the BBC giving him carte blanche to ridicule anyone who he thinks he can brush away like bullshit from his well heeled boots, also paid for by the peasants.
Tory scumbag Cameron backs his right wing fascist pal Clarkson who are part of the Chipping Norton toff club
Who's who in the Chipping Norton middle class toff cabal?
Chipping Norton Evenlode Lodge 6535
How close are Cameron, Jeremy Clarkson and Rebekah Brooks really?
The Chipping Norton Set (and the Prime Ministers Tools for Global Tyranny & Economic Grand Larceny)
Clarkson and the Banbury rotary club
Jeremy Clarkson Is A Knob says his co presenter May
Clarkson kisses Cameron's tory arse visiting 10 Downing Street
Jeremy Clarkson protected by his lodge buddies at Chipping Norton for to long?
Feminist BBC gives platform to bleating Indian feminist (ALL women victims of bad men)
BBC's big mouth upper class arrogant racist twat Clarkson suspended
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BBC TV Licensing GOON told too "fuck off "
BBC TV Licence Solicitor Threatens Guy For Filming In Public
BBC TV Licence goons refuse to say who they are!
BBC's predatory paedo Jimmy Savile's historic abuse at Stoke Mandeville hospital
Jimmy Savile: Senior staff at Stoke Mandeville Hospital 'knew about abuse of young patients at hands of DJ'
Savile victims WILL get compensation - but less than they hoped as judge orders that lawyers must be paid first (The very law society bastards who protected him while he was alive will now gain from his death)
Just 22 out of 58 payout claims against Jimmy Savile have been accepted amid warnings that his estate may be swallowed up by lawyers... leaving nothing for genuine victims
Every time a reporter tried to investigate Savile his lawyers were very prompt in threatening aggressive legal action
Savile said he had a legal team on standby and would simply threaten anyone accusing him with libel
The end of the vile BBC TV licence fee is on the horizon
Zionist run BBC and parliament want anti-Israeli ASBO's for anyone who disagrees with Gaza holocaust
Criticism of Israel = Anti-Semitism
If only the zionist run BBC were as sympathetic to Israel's Gaza holocaust
BBC promote the mark of the beast
Femi BBC promote political mafia's 'special' treatment for female criminals
Holocaust fest on BBC breakfast this morning
Anyone who watched BBC Breakfast this morning would be noting that more than 50% of the time on air was dedicated to the Holocaust, conveniently 70 years ago and just as mounting pressure is being centred on the zionist Israeli murdering gangsters now up for criminal war crimes at the International Criminal Court (we will wait and see the outcome from that DEN of iniquity). Its a pity the BBC were not as vigilant exposing the paedo's in their midst, the Israeli zionist mafia operating inside the BBC (via head honcho Danny Cohen) who deliberately downplay the GAZA holocaust survivors who time and again, after each blitz by Israeli mass murderers, seem to get away with , by the West's media anyway , as if it was a minor skirmish and not the total obliteration of the infrastructure of Gaza that their people depend on.
The Bitch Broadcasting Cunts also pump out the most VILE man hating feminazi shite to allow the zionist / freemasons who control Britain's courts to line their pockets with the spoils of men who face the divorce holocaust where most of the legislation has been conjured up by the likes of jewish lawyer and Thatcher henchman Leon Brittan who it is claimed was part of a homopaedo network abusing and murdering young boys at a sordid Westminster paedo ring in London.
The BBC are a monster using our licence money to get away with MURDER. Presenting issues clearly to distort news and divert the attention of the sheeple away from those behind the most vile persecution campaigns on the planet. They are an evil blot on the landscape, not only in Britain, but across the rest of the world where there sordid psychopathic programs are brainwashing the sheeple overseas who think the sun shines from the royal arse thanks to the most horrific sickly sweet deference and veneration shown to the biggest gangsters on the planet.
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Netanyahu in smear campaign against ICC (The zionists have no need to worry when their freemason lackeys run and control the International Criminal Court who have ignored the ethnic culling of the sick and disabled in Britain by the tory terrorists assassins ATOS and DWP)
Families of victims of Gaza war welcome ICC probe into Israel war crimes
Netanyahu: ICC decision to probe war crimes 'absurd'
If jewish claims of persecution are correct why are they coincidentally some of the richest in the world?
French Jews rap Israel over Paris attacks
'F**k her': Furious Louise Mensch attacks the Queen and David Cameron over tyrant King Abdullah tributes
Royal parasite and his political lackey fly to Saudi amid growing row over British royals flag tributes to murdering tyrant Abdullah and the beheading of innocent citizens
Jewish lawyer and Thatcher henchman Leon Brittan faced cop quiz over claims he was at homopaedo VIP parties where boys were abused
'Sex slave' lawyers to serve papers on royal parasite at Washington embassy after claiming he refused to accept letter asking to testify on oath
Royal parasite's flags at half mast and fawning praise for a King Abdullah 'loved by his people' sparks furious backlash over rule which saw 'death by stoning' for adultery and regular beheadings
Vile Savile and buddy abused for decades thanks to their freemason cop pals
Police say sorry for ignoring the 'worst kept secret in Scarborough'
Suspected child abusers Jimmy Savile and Peter Jaconelli could have been captured 30 years ago, had police listened to their victims at the time. That is the frank admission of North Yorkshire Police, with the force now confessing that it was told about the abuse decades ago – but decided not to do anything about it.
The force has now offered a full apology to the duo's victims, after a report found there was "overwhelming" evidence to say they were guilty of dozens of ?serious sexual offences - including rape. A report on Operation Hibiscus reveals that ice cream magnate Jaconelli carried out a four-decade campaign of abuse in Scarborough, and along with Savile, would have been arrested if still alive.
But with Jaconelli's offending believed to have gone on until a year before his death in 1999, it means the police's decision not to pursue the initial complaints let him continue abusing children for at least another decade. "His crimes were the worst kept secret in Scarborough," said an anonymous Scarborough man, who worked for the ice cream man at his seafront parlour as a teenage boy. "It's unbelievable that so many people could know what was going on, yet the police have clearly just turned a blind eye."
He claims that while none of his friends ever admitted to being abused by Jaconelli, the obese judo expert would "brush" himself against boys and grope them. "It wasn't nice at all, but the boys were paid really well and they would just joke about it."
His comments mirror those made by former Scarborough councillor Geoff Evans, who was one of the first to break their ?silence over the former Mayor's deviant ways. And since a TV expose on the duo, which police deem the "catalyst" for the wave of allegations against Jaconelli. the police have received 37 allegations from 35 different victims. The vast majority involve Jaconelli alone, although there are two "shared" victims.
In an interview with The Scarborough News, Assistant Chief Constable Paul Kennedy said while he is aware rumours circulated around Scarborough for years, nobody else has so far been reported to police involving abuse. However, while apologising to the victims his force ignored decades earlier, he said North Yorkshire Police will now "listen intently" to anybody who comes forward with any information about abuse. "It's quite clear that as a result of our investigation, in the past, of all the victims that have stepped forward, in a small number of case, there were missed opportunities when victims of crime tried to report crimes to the police they were clearly not listened to and clearly not investigated as thoroughly as they could be.
"What I can say is that we did miss opportunities in the past in the region of 30 years ago and to those people who did try and make those reports, on behalf of North Yorkshire Police, I'm so sorry that we did miss those opportunities." Ultimately, the decision to prosecute the pair would have been in the hands of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS). The police also state that both Savile and Jaconelli may have disputed the allegations when interviewed.
But Assistant Chief Constable Kennedy feels the stack of evidence against both is "so significant and overwhelming", both would have faced the possibility of standing in court together to give both them –and their victims – their day in court. However, with Jaconelli's death 15 years ago, and Savile's in 2012, any hope of their victims seeing justice was cruelly dashed. "It is a matter of great regret that, from the outset of the investigation, there was no prospect of true justice being achieved as the suspects are deceased," added Mr Kennedy.
"However, I hope the victims have gained a measure of closure from knowing that matters have now been investigated as fully as possible." But now woman responsible for keeping North Yorkshire Police in line has accused the force of "failing" Jaconelli's and Savile's victims. Crime Commissioner Julia Mulligan took aim after the report on Operation Hibiscus highlighted the full extent of the duo's decades of abuse in the region.
And the elected crime tsar adds that those 35 victims have been forced to live in misery, after the police failed to act upon initial complaints. "It is clear that historically, North Yorkshire Police failed these victims," said Mrs Mulligan.
But she added: "Whilst it is not possible to turn back the clock, I am confident that under the leadership of Chief Constable Dave Jones, who has come to North Yorkshire from elsewhere, any historical issues will be properly dealt with. "Indeed the Chief Constable has referred the force to the IPCC on two separate occasions, one of which was then referred back to the force and the other we await the Independent Police Complaints Commission's (IPCC) conclusions." The IPCC is currently probing about how the force dealt to complaints two years ago relating to Jaconelli and Savile's offending.
It self-refereed itself in April to the commissions, and follows another investigation which found there was evidence of organisational failure regarding the Savile case, although the force was cleared of misconduct. And Mrs Mulligan added: "Looking at North Yorkshire Police now, I am certain that the service has changed and believe this is demonstrated by their actions today. "Moreover, in October I commissioned a formal 'health check' into how North Yorkshire Police currently investigates child sexual abuse and exploitation.
"This was a comprehensive review, and whilst a number of actions were identified, I am satisfied that the force has been able, for some time now, to respond effectively and immediately to allegations of abuse." And she warned that with more victims likely to come forward, it's vital the police have the right safeguards in place to help them. "It is crucial that the police and specialist support services for victims are both in place, ready and able to respond," she said.
"Whilst no service is perfect, I do feel able to reassure the public that North Yorkshire Police is today in a strong position to act as is needed and expected." And following the last IPCC report, which highlighted flaws with the force, Assistant Chief Constable Kennedy said the force was continuing to take a "proactive" approach to tackling historical sexual abuse. cases.
He added: "Whilst there were failings to report some relevant information, there is no evidence to suggest North Yorkshire Police failed in its responsibility to support Operation Yewtree, the national investigation concerning Savile. He added: "The public should be able to trust in its police service, and we are doing everything we can to be open and transparent about how we are dealing with historic sexual abuse cases whilst respecting the privacy of victims."
Paedo doctor abused at same hospital as BBC paedo Jimmy Savile
Paedo doctor Michael Salmon guilty of indecent assaults at Stoke Mandeville hospital


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A system and method for remote direct memory access over a network switch fabric. Some illustrative embodiments may include a system comprising a first system node, a direct memory access (DMA) controller, a second system node, and a network switch fabric coupling together the first and second system nodes (the network switch fabric comprises a rooted hierarchical bus). The DMA controller is configured to perform a DMA transfer of data between the first and second system nodes across the network switch fabric. The data is formatted as one or more remote DMA (RDMA) protocol messages that are routed across the network switch fabric based on a bus end-device identifier corresponding to the second system node.
1. A system, comprising:
a first system node;
a direct memory access (DMA) controller;
a second system node; and
a network switch fabric coupling together the first and second system nodes, the network switch fabric comprises a rooted hierarchical bus;
wherein the DMA controller is configured to perform a DMA transfer of data between the first and second system nodes across the network switch fabric; and
wherein the data is formatted as one or more remote DMA (RDMA) protocol messages that are routed across the network switch fabric based on a bus end-device identifier corresponding to the second system node.
2. The computer system of
3. The computer system of
4. The computer system of
the first system node;
a third system node; and
a virtual bus between the first and third system node;
wherein a message is transferred between the first and third system nodes, the message formatted according to a first bus protocol defined for the virtual bus; and
wherein the message is encapsulated according to a second bus protocol defined for the network switch fabric.
5. The computer system of
6. The computer system of
7. The computer system of
8. The computer system of
9. The computer system of
a first virtual machine comprising the first system node;
a second virtual machine comprising the second system node; and
a virtual network between the first and second virtual machines;
wherein a message is transferred between the first and second virtual machines, the message formatted according to a network protocol defined for the virtual network; and
wherein the message is encapsulated according to a bus protocol defined for the network switch fabric.
10. The computer system of
11. The computer system of
12. The computer system of
13. The computer system of
14. The computer system of
15. The computer system of
16. The computer system of
17. The computer system of
wherein the network switch fabric provides an active path between the first system node and the second system node that facilitates a first data packet exchange that travels along a first path constrained within a hierarchy of the rooted hierarchical bus; and
wherein the network switch fabric further provides an alternate path between the first system node and the second system node that facilitates a second data packet exchange that travels along a second path at least part of which is not constrained within the hierarchy of the rooted hierarchical bus.
18. The computer system of
19. The computer system of
20. The computer system of
21. A method, comprising:
gathering data transfer information comprising a network identifier of a remote node, a local data buffer location, and data transfer type information;
converting the network identifier into a corresponding hierarchical bus end-device identifier;
mapping a remote data buffer with a memory space of the remote node to a memory space of a local node;
providing transfer parameters to a direct memory access (DMA) controller, the transfer parameters comprising the memory mapped remote data buffer location, the local data buffer location, and the data transfer type;
transferring data across a network switch fabric using the DMA controller, the transferring controlled by the transfer parameters provided, and the network switch fabric comprising a hierarchical bus;
routing the data as it is transferred across the network switch fabric, the routing based on the hierarchical bus end-device identifier; and
formatting the data as one or more remote DMA (RDMA) protocol messages.
22. The method of
23. The method of
The present application claims priority to, and incorporates by reference, provisional application Ser. No. 60/565,602, filed Apr. 27, 2004, and entitled "Multi-Host Extension for PCI."
Ongoing advances in distributed multi-processor computer architectures have continued to drive improvements in the various technologies used to interconnect processors, as well as their peripheral components. As the speed of processors has increased, the underlying interconnect, intervening logic, and the overhead associated with transferring data to and from the processors have all become increasingly significant factors impacting performance. Performance improvements have been achieved through the use of faster networking technologies (e.g., Gigabit Ethernet), network switch fabrics (e.g., Infiniband, and RapidIO), TCP offload engines, and zero-copy data transfer techniques (e.g., remote direct memory access).
But many of the interconnect technologies currently in use require converting from the underlying interconnect architecture of the processors to the interconnect architecture of the network or network switch fabric. This may require additional and sometimes proprietary intervening hardware (e.g., host channel adapters). These interconnect technologies also may add processing layers to the communication protocol stack (e.g., Advanced Switching), adding to the overhead of the data transactions.
For a detailed description of exemplary embodiments of the invention, reference will now be made to the accompanying drawings in which:
Certain terms are used throughout the following description and claims to refer to particular system components. As one skilled in the art will appreciate, computer companies may refer to a component by different names. This document does not intend to distinguish between components that differ in name but not function. In the following discussion and in the claims, the terms "including" and "comprising" are used in an open-ended fashion, and thus should be interpreted to mean "including, but not limited to . . . ." Also, the term "couple" or "couples" is intended to mean either an indirect or direct electrical connection. Thus, if a first device couples to a second device, that connection may be through a direct electrical connection, or through an indirect electrical connection via other devices and connections. Additionally, the term "software" refers to any executable code capable of running on a processor, regardless of the media used to store the software. Thus, code stored in non-volatile memory, and sometimes referred to as "embedded firmware," is within the definition of software. Further, the term "system" refers to a collection of two or more parts and may be used to refer to a computer or networking system or a portion of a computer or networking system.
The following discussion is directed to various embodiments of the invention. Although one or more of these embodiments may be preferred, the embodiments disclosed should not be interpreted, or otherwise used, as limiting the scope of the disclosure, including the claims. In addition, one skilled in the art will understand that the following description has broad application, and the discussion of any embodiment is meant only to be exemplary of that embodiment, and not intended to intimate that the scope of the disclosure, including the claims, is limited to that embodiment.
Interconnect busses have been increasingly extended to operate as network switch fabrics within distributed multi-processor computer systems. These computer systems may comprise several components or "nodes" that are interconnected by the network switch fabric. The network switch fabric may provide redundant or alternate paths that interconnect the nodes and allow them to exchange data.
Each of the nodes within the computer system 100 couples to at least two of the switches within the network switch fabric. Thus, in the embodiment illustrated in
By providing both an active and alternate path a node may send and receive data across the network switch fabric over either path based on such factors as switch availability, path latency, and network congestion. Thus, for example, if management node 122 needs to communicate with I/O node 126, but switch 116 has failed, the transaction may still be completed by using an alternate path through the remaining switches. One such path, for example, may be through switch 114 (ports 26 and 23), switch 110 (ports 06 and 04), switch 112 (ports 17 and 15), and switch 118 (ports 42 and 44).
Because the underlying hierarchical bus structure of the network switch fabric 102, illustrated in
In at least some embodiments the controller 212 may be implemented as a state machine that uses the routing information based on the availability of the active path. In other embodiments, the controller 212 may be implemented as a processor that executes software (not shown). In such an embodiment the switch 200 would be capable of using the routing information based on the availability of the active path, and would also be capable of making more complex routing decisions based on factors such as network path length, network traffic, and overall data transmission efficiency and performance. Other factors may become apparent to those skilled in the art, and such variations are intended to be within the scope of this disclosure.
The initialization of the network switch fabric may vary depending upon the underlying bus architecture.
By enumerating the switches and end-devices with respect to the management node, a consistent system-wide enumeration is achieved that allows multiple compute nodes to access all other nodes within the system. In the context of the illustrative PCI-based network switch fabric 102 of
Referring now to
As ports are identified during each valid configuration cycle of the initialization process, each port reports its configuration (primary or secondary) to the port of any other switch to which it is coupled. Once both ports of two switches so coupled to each other have initialized, each switch determines whether or not both ports have been identified as secondary. If at least one port has not been identified as a secondary port, the path between them is designated as an active path within the bus hierarchy of the underlying bus architecture. If both ports have been identified as secondary ports, the path between them is designated as a redundant or alternate path. Routing information regarding other ports or endpoints accessible through each switch (segment numbers within the PCI architecture) is then exchanged between the two ports at either end of the path coupling the ports, and each port is then identified as an endpoint within the bus hierarchy. The result of this process is illustrated in
After processing the first valid configuration cycle, subsequent valid configuration cycles may cause the switch to initialize the remaining uninitialized secondary ports on the switch. If no uninitialized secondary ports are found (block 612), all end-devices have been discovered, each has been assigned an end-device ID (e.g., a PCI device ID comprising a bus, device and function number), and the initialization method 600 is complete (block 614). If an uninitialized secondary port is identified (block 612) the identified secondary port is selected in block 616. If the selected secondary port is not coupled to another switch (block 618), no further action on the selected secondary port is required (the selected secondary port is initialized).
If the secondary port selected in block 616 is coupled to another switch (block 618) and the selected secondary port has not yet been configured (block 620), the selected secondary port communicates its configuration state to the port of the other switch to which it couples (block 622). If the port of the other switch is also a secondary port (block 624) the path between the two ports is designated as a redundant or alternate path and routing information associated with the path is saved (block 626). If the port of the other switch is not a secondary port (block 624) the path between the two ports is designated as an active path (block 628). After configuring the path as either active or redundant/alternate, the port is configured and the process is repeated by again waiting for a valid configuration cycle in block 606.
If the port is found to have already been configured in block 620, the valid configuration cycle is propagated to all appropriate busses coupled to the selected secondary port. This may include a first bus coupled to the port selected in block 616, as well as additional busses coupled to other switches that also couple to the selected switch through the first bus. When all ports on all switches coupled to the selected secondary port have been configured, the port is initialized. Multiple configuration cycles may be needed to complete the initialization of the selected secondary port. After the selected secondary port has been initialized, the process is again repeated for subsequent uninitialized ports until all secondary ports within the switch have been initialized.
Once the initialization process has completed and the computer system begins operation, data packets may be routed as needed through alternate paths identified during initialization. For example, referring again to
The performance of data transfers across the network fabric of
In the computer system of
Once the socket structure has been populated, the application program 137 may then forward the structure to the operating system 135 in a request to send data. Based on the IP address, the operating system 135 may route the request to device driver 138, which has access to the network comprising the requested IP address. This network, coupling compute node 120 and compute node 124 to each other, is actually a virtual network (e.g., Ethernet or InfiniBand), representing an abstraction layer that permits interoperability of the network switch fabric 102 with the existing network services provided by the operating system 135. The device driver may then process the request, and based on the information within the socket structure may then, if requested, configure DMA engine 132 for an RDMA transfer of data within the data buffer 134 to a destination location within the data buffer 144 of compute node 124. The device driver 138 may accomplish this by writing the required information into the RDMA configuration register space 133, and enabling the start of the transfer by the DMA engine 132.
Once the DMA engine 132 has begun to transfer data, data is read from the source buffer (in this example, data buffer 134) and formatted into RDMA messages. These messages may include RDMA headers, direct data placement (DDP) headers, and marker protocol data unit alignment (MPA) headers and markers. Once formatted, the DMA engine 132 sends the RDMA messages across the network switch fabric 102 by performing a data write across the underlying interconnect bus. In the illustrative embodiment of
As already noted, the RDMA transfers may be executed using the native data transfer operations of the underlying interconnect bus architecture (e.g., PCI). The enumeration sequence of the illustrative embodiments previously described identifies each node within the computer system 100 as an end-device, and associates a unique, bus end-device identifier with each node. The identifiers allow RDMA messages to be directed by the source to the desired end-device. No additional encapsulation of the data is necessary for routing or message reordering purposes. This architecture allows the DMA engines 132 and 142 to send and receive RDMA messages at the full rate of the underlying interconnect, with less communication stack processing overhead than might be required if additional encapsulation were present. The use of RDMA transfers across the network switch fabric 102 of the illustrative embodiments also may reduce at least some of the data buffering requirements of the computer system 100. This can reduce data transfer latencies as compared to non zero-copy type data transfers.
The network visible to the operating system is a virtual network that functions as an abstraction layer over the network switch fabric 102 of
In each of the embodiments, the underlying network switch fabric 102 of
The embodiments described illustrate a virtual network that couples various nodes operating as separate virtual machines. But this same virtualization may also be applied to various nodes within the system that operate together as components of a single virtual machine. Thus compute node 120 of
The virtual bus described also allows individual virtual machine functions to be implemented together within a single node, or distributed among multiple nodes. An RDMA transaction of some embodiments may be executed on the compute node 120 using a combination of the device driver 132, DMA engine 132, and PCI NIC 131. In other embodiments, other nodes may transparently handle portions of the RDMA transaction.
The compute node 120 sets up an RDMA transaction on the I/O compute node 128 across the virtual bus as if the RDMA configuration register space were directly mapped within the memory space of the compute node 120. The I/O processor node 128 may then format the upper level protocol transaction and executes the transfer. In an RDMA transaction with another system (not shown) external to computer system 100, the I/O processor node 128 may gain access to external network 104 through I/O node 126, using network protocol engine 159 to format (outgoing) or process (incoming) the network message accordingly. I/O node 126 also appears as if it were directly attached to the same virtual bus, even though it is a physically distinct node coupled to the underlying network switch fabric 102. The I/O processor node 128 and I/O node 126 may both be configured to process messages using a variety of different network protocols (e.g., Ethernet, Fiber Channel, and Infiniband), and this disclosure is intended to encompass all such embodiments.
The various virtualizations described (machines and networks), may be combined to operate simultaneously over a single network switch fabric 102. For example, referring again to
The above discussion is meant to be illustrative of the principles and various embodiments of the present invention. Numerous variations and modifications will become apparent to those skilled in the art once the above disclosure is fully appreciated. For example, although some of the embodiments are described in the context of a PCI bus architecture, other similar bus architectures may also be used (e.g., Hyper-Transport, Rapid IO). Many other embodiments are within the scope of the present disclosure, and it is intended that the following claims be interpreted to embrace all such variations and modifications.
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