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Pumpernickel/Rye Bread Stuffing With Apple, Walnuts, and Raisins
Total Time
1hr 30mins
Prep 1 hr
Cook 30 mins
Rick Rodgers
Ingredients Nutrition
- 8 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 1 large onion, chopped
- 3 granny smith apples, peeled, cored, and cut into 1/2-inch cubes
- 2 medium celery ribs, chopped
- 1 1⁄2 cups walnuts, toasted and coarsely chopped
- 1 cup golden raisin
- 1⁄2 lb pumpernickel bread, cut into 1/2-inch cubes and dried overnight
- 1⁄2 lb rye bread, cut into 1/2 inch cubes and dried overnight
- 1⁄2 cup apple cider
- 1⁄2-1 cup turkey broth or 1⁄2-1 cup chicken broth, as needed
- salt
- fresh ground black pepper
- In a big skillet, melt butter over medium heat; add in the onion; cook, stirring often, until softened, about 3 minutes.
- Add in apples and celery; cook/stir until the onions are golden brown, about 10 minutes.
- Stir in walnuts and raisins.
- Transfer the onion-apple mixture to a bowl; add in pumpernickel and rye bread cubes; toss, sprinkling with apple cider.
- Gradually stir in about ½ cup broth, until stuffing is evenly moistened but not soggy.
- Season with salt and pepper to taste.
- Transfer to a lightly buttered casserole dish, sprinkle with ½ cup broth, cover, and bake in a preheated 350° oven for 30 minutes (uncover the last 15 minutes if you want a crusty-topped stuffing).
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I had to make a few adjustments based on the ingredients I had on hand, but this was delicious and just what I was looking for to go with our St. Paddy's corned beef dinner. Next time I will make it as written, but it's definitely a keeper!

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Hi Robin. No need to be sorry. Not long at all. Anyway, we need to know stuff to help.
I would be thrilled if my blood sugar was 86, or even 96 if that's the true reading. It is a lot higher despite large doses of Metformin.
Full fat dairy, the only kind I would consume, can make you insulin resistant. It did me. One meal of sushi and two slices of bread shouldn't do anything lasting.
How many carbs are you eating? Low carb can make you insulin resistant. It seems to have done that to me. (Vicious circle - I ate more and more fat, esp. dairy fat, and fewer and fewer carbs. And my glucose shot higher and higher.)


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Comparing not seasonally adjusted data over the past 12 months, the national unemployment rate fell 0.4 percentage points from December 1997 to December 1998. Twenty-three States reported unemployment rate declines greater than the Nation's.
Alaska, Connecticut, Maine, and Tennessee all experienced unemployment rate declines of 1.4 percentage points in 1998. The unemployment rate in Maryland fell 1.3 percentage points; in Alabama, the rate was down 1.2 percentage points.
These data are a product of the Local Area Unemployment Statistics program. More information can be found in news release USDL 99-19, "Regional and State Employment and Unemployment: December 1998." Comparisons of end-of-the-year national and State unemployment rates are based on seasonally adjusted December 1998 data. Year-to-year comparisons are based on changes in not seasonally adjusted unemployment rates for December 1997 and December 1998.
Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, The Economics Daily, Three Midwestern States tie for lowest unemployment rate at end of 1998 on the Internet at http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/1999/jan/wk4/art01.htm (visited September 27, 2016).
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|Jun 4, 2008
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|Jun 22, 2007
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|Brian Manula, Ola Torudbakken, Hans Olaf Rygh
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|Oracle America, Inc.
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This application hereby claims priority under 35 U.S.C. �119 to U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 60/945,778, filed on 22 Jun. 2007, entitled "COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS". The present application hereby incorporates by reference the above-referenced provisional patent application.
The invention relates to a switch system for connecting a configurable number of ports together.
A switch has a number of resources, such as ports, buffers and internal busses. These resources will often depend on each other (e.g., the usage of some resources typically requires the availability of others). At a certain time, a buffer at each input port typically holds packets to several destinations, while packets to a certain destination are held in different input buffers. If an input buffer has a single read port, and this read port is busy feeding data to one output port, another output port might have to wait idle until the read port of the input buffer becomes available.
Different switch implementations can use different protocols (e.g., PCI Express, Ethernet, InfiniBand, etc.). It is desirable to manage packet transfers such that it is possible to transfer the highest number of packets at the same time irrespective of the protocol being used.
The present invention seeks to provide an adaptable switch system that is configurable to different protocols.
An embodiment of the invention can provide a switch matrix with a configurable, protocol agnostic, packet switching core, the switch matrix providing a non-blocking switch connecting a configurable number of ports together.
An embodiment of the invention can provide a switch system for connecting a configurable number of ports together, the switch comprising a plurality of switch matrix units and a switch interconnect interconnecting the switch matrix units, at least one said switch matrix unit providing a port connection to a port and providing a plurality of virtual output queues for respective destination ports, each virtual output queue being configured to buffer received packets to be transmitted to a respective destination port.
An embodiment of the invention can provide a method of operation a switch system for connecting a configurable number of ports together, the method comprising: providing a plurality of switch matrix units and a switch interconnect interconnecting the switch matrix units; providing port connections to the ports via respective switch matrix units; and buffering packets from the ports to be transmitted to destination ports in respective virtual output queues in the switch matrix unit, each virtual output queue being configured to buffer received packets to be transmitted to a respective destination port.
Although various aspects of the invention are set out in the accompanying independent and dependent claims, other aspects of the invention include any combination of features from the described embodiments and/or the accompanying dependent claims, possibly with the features of the independent claims, and not solely the combinations explicitly set out in the accompanying claims.
Specific embodiments are described by way of example only with reference to the accompanying Figures in which:
An example embodiment of a 3456-port InfiniBand 4� DDR switch in a custom rack chassis is described, with the switch architecture being based upon a 5-stage CLOS fabric. The rack chassis can form a switch enclosure.
The CLOS network, first described by Charles Clos in 1954, is a multi-stage fabric built from smaller individual switch elements that provides full-bisectional bandwidth for all end points, assuming effective dispersive routing.
Given that an external connection (copper or fiber) costs several times more per port than the silicon cost, the key to make large CLOS networks practical is to minimize the number of external cables required and to maximize the number of internal interconnections. This reduces the cost and increases the reliability. For example, a 5-stage fabric constructed with switching elements of size (n) ports supports (n*n/2*n/2) edge points, using (5*n/2*n/2) switch elements with a total of (3*n*n/2*n/2) connections. The ratio of total to external connections is 5:1, i.e. 80% of all connections can be kept internal. The switch elements (switch chips) in the described example can be implemented using a device with 24 4�DDR ports.
An example switch uses a connector that support 3 4� ports per connector, which can further to minimize a number of cables needed. This can provides a further 3:1 reduction in the number of cables. In a described example, only 1152 cables (1/3*n*n/2*n/2) are required.
In contrast if prior commercially available 288-port switches and 24-port switches were used to create a 3456-port fabric a total of 6912 cables (2*n*n/2*n/2) would be required.
The example switch can provide a single chassis that can implement a 5-stage CLOS fabric with 3456 4�DDR ports. High density external interfaces can be provided, including fiber, shielded copper, fiber and twisted pair copper. The amount of cabling can be reduced by 84.4% when compared to building a 3456-port fabric with commercially available 24-port and 288-port switches. In the example embodiment, an orthogonal midplane design can be provided that is capable of DDR data rates.
An example switch can address a full range of HPC cluster computing from a few hundred to many thousand of nodes with a reliable and cost-effective solution that uses fewer chassis and cables than prior solutions.
In the present example, up to 18 fabric cards (FC0 to FC17) 12,
In the present example, up to 24 line cards (LC0 to LC23) 14,
Up to 16 hot-pluggable power supply units (PSO-PS16) 16,
Two hot-pluggable Chassis Management Controllers (CMCs) 18,
The power distribution board is a passive power distribution board that supports up to 16 power supply units DC connectors and 2 chassis management controller slot connectors. The power distribution board connects to the midplane through ribbon cables that carry low-speed signals.
In the present example, up to 144 fan modules (Fan#0-Fan#143) 20 are provided, with 8 fan modules per fabric card 12 in the present instance. Cooling airflow is controlled to be from the front to the rear, using redundant fans on the fabric cards to pull the air from the line cards 14 through openings (not shown in
Also, although the fabric cards and the switch cards are described as being orthogonal to each other, they do not need to be exactly orthogonal to each other. Indeed, it should be appreciated that in an alternative embodiment they could be angled with respect to each other but need not be exactly orthogonal to each other.
The midplane 30 is represented schematically to show an array of midplane connector pairs 32 as black squares with ventilation openings shown as white rectangles. Each midplane connector pair 32 comprises a pair of connectors (to be explained in more detail later) with one connector on a first face of the midplane and a second connector on the other face of the midplane, the first and second connectors being electrically interconnected by way of pass-through vias (not shown in
In an example described herein, each of the first connectors of the respective midplane connector pairs 32 of a column 31 of midplane connector pairs 32 can be connected to one fabric card 12. This can be repeated column by column for successive fabric cards 12. In an example described herein, each of the second connectors of the respective midplane connector pairs 32 of a row 33 of midplane connector pairs 32 can be connected to one line card 14. This can be repeated row by row for successive line cards 14. As a result, the midplane can be populated by vertically oriented fabric cards 12 on the first side of the midplane and horizontally orientated line cards 12 on the second side of the midplane 30.
In the present example the midplane 30 provides orthogonal connectivity between fabric cards 12 and the line cards 14 using orthogonal connector pairs. Each orthogonal connector pair provides 64 differential signal pairs, which is sufficient to carry the high-speed signals needed as well as a number of low-speed signals. The orthogonal connector pairs are not shown in
The midplane 30 is also configured to provide 3.3 VDC standby power distribution to all cards and to provide I2C/System Management Bus connections for all fabric cards 12 and line cards 14.
Another function of the midplane 30 is to provide thermal openings for a front-to-rear airflow. The white holes in
The fabric cards 12 each support 24 connectors and the line cards 14 each support 18 connectors.
As previously mentioned a 5-stage Clos fabric has a size n*n/2*n/2 in which n is the size of the switch element. The example switch element in
There are 18 midplane connectors 32 per line card 14. Each midplane connector 32 provides one physical connection to one fabric card 14. Each midplane connector 32 can accommodate 8 4� links (there are 8 differential pairs per 4� link and a total of 64 differential pairs provided by the orthogonal connector)
12 ports of each of the switch chips 35 in the second row 38 of the line card 14 are connected to 2 line card connectors 40 that are used to connect the line card 14 to the midplane connectors 32 and thereby with the fabric cards 12 through the orthogonally oriented midplane connector pair. Of the 12 ports per switch chip 35, eight ports are connected to one line card connector 40, and the remaining four ports are connected to another line card connector 40 as represented by the numbers 8 and 4 adjacent the two left hand switch chips 35 in the second row 38. 2 switch chips are thereby connected to a group of 3 line card connectors 40 and hence to a group of three midplane connectors pairs 32.
The remaining 12 ports of each switch chip 35 in the second row 38 of the line card 14 are connected to each of the 12 switch chips 35 in the first row 36 of the line card 14.
At the fabric card 12 all links through an orthogonally oriented midplane connector pair 32 are connected to one line card 14. A single orthogonal connector 46 carries 8 links. These links are connected to one switch element 44 each at the fabric card 12.
Also shown in
There has been described a system with 24 line cards with 144 ports each, realized through 48 physical cable connectors that each carry 3 links. The switch fabric structure of each line card 14 is fully connected, so the line card 14 itself can be viewed upon as a fully non-blocking 144 port switch. In addition each line card 14 has 144 links that are connected to 18 fabric cards. The 18 fabric cards then connect all the line cards 14 together in a 5-stage non-blocking Clos topology.
In the present example the midplane 30 is a passive printed circuit board that has dimensions of 1066.8 mm (42″)�908.05 mm (35.75″)�7.1 mm (0.280″). The active area is 40″�34″. 864 8�8 midplane connectors (432 midplane connectors per side) are provided. There is a ribbon cable connection the power distribution board 22 and a 3.3V standby copper bar to the power distribution board 22.
In the present example a fabric card 12 comprises a printed circuit board with dimensions of 254 mm (10″)�1016 mm (40″)�4.5 mm (177″). It comprises 24 8�8 fabric card connectors 46, one power connector 39, 8 fan module connectors and 8 switch chips 44.
In the present example a line card 14 comprises a printed circuit board with dimensions of 317.5 mm (12.5″)�965.2 mm (38″)�4.5 mm (177″). It comprises 24 stacked cable 168-circuit connectors 42, 18 8�8 card connectors 40, 1 busbar connector and 24 switch chips 35.
In the present example a power distribution board 22 comprises a printed circuit board, 16 power supply DC connectors, 14 6�6 card connectors (7 connectors per chassis management card 18, ribbon cable connectors for low-speed connectivity to the midplane 30, and a 3.3V standby copper bar to the midplane 30.
In the present example a chassis management card 18 comprises 14 6�6 card connectors (7 connectors per chassis management card, two Rj45 connectors with magnetics for Ethernet available on a chassis management card panel, two Rj45 connectors for serial available at the chassis management card panel, three Rj45 for line card/fabric card debug console access at the chassis management card panel, three HEX rotary switches used to select between which line card/fabric card debug console is connected to the three Rj45s above, and a 220-pin connector for the mezzanine.
In the present example a mezzanine has dimensions: 92.0 mm�50.8 mm and comprises 4 mounting holes for screws with either 5 mm or 8 mm standoff from the chassis management card board, a 220-pin connector for connectivity to chassis management board.
It will be noted that the second connector 64 of the midplane connector pair 32 is rotated through substantially 90 degrees with respect to the first connector 62. The first connector 62 is configured to connect to a corresponding fabric card connector 46 of a fabric card 12. The second connector 62 is configured to connect to a corresponding fabric card connector 46 of a line card 14. Through the orientation of the second connector 64 of the midplane connector pair 32 substantially orthogonally to the orientation of the first connector 62, it can be seen that the line card 14 is mounted substantially orthogonally to the fabric card 12. In the present example the line card 14 is mounted substantially horizontally and the fabric card is mounted substantially vertically 12.
Each of the contact pins on the connector 62 is electrically connectable to a corresponding contact of the fabric card connector 46. Each of the contact pins on the connector 64 is electrically connectable to a corresponding contact of the line card connector 40. The connector pins of the respective connectors 62 and 64 are connected by means of pass-through vias in the midplane 30 as will now be described in more detail.
As can be seen in
By comparing
The first midplane connector 62 (fabric card side connector) of the midplane connector pair 32 has substantially the same form as the second midplane connector 62 of the midplane connector pair 32, except that it is oriented at substantially 90 degrees to the second midplane connector 64. In this example the second midplane connector 62 comprises a substantially U-shaped support frame 75 including a substantially planar base and first and second substantially walls and that extend at substantially at 90 degrees from the base. The inside edges of the first and second substantially planar sides are provided with ridges and grooves that provide guides for the fabric card connector 46. The fabric card connector 46 has the same basic structure as that of the line card connector 40 in the present instance. Thus, in the same way as for the line card connector, each of a plurality of contact planes of the fabric card connector 46 can be entered into a respective one of the grooves so that connectors of the fabric card connector 46 can then engage with contact pins of the first connector 62. The orientation of the first connector 62 and the grooves therein means that the fabric card 12 is supported in a substantially vertical orientation.
In the example illustrated in
As mentioned above, the contact pins of the first and second midplane connectors 62 and 64 of a midplane connector pair 32 are connected by means of pass through vias in the midplane.
In use, the other midplane connector (e.g., the first midplane 62) of the midplane connector pair would be inserted into the pass through vias in the other side of the midplane 30 in the orthogonal orientation as discussed previously.
The examples of the midplane connectors described with reference to
It will be appreciated that in other embodiments the first and second midplane connectors could have different shapes and/or configurations appropriate for the connections for the cards to be connected thereto.
Also, although in the above described embodiment the midplane connector pairs 32 are configured as first and second connectors 62 and 64, in another embodiment they could be configured as a single connector that is assembled in the midplane. For example, through connectors could be provided that extend through the midplane vias. The through connectors could be manufactured to be integral with a first connector frame (e.g., a U-shaped frame or a box-shaped frame as in
The array of midplane connector pairs 32 as described above provides outstanding performance in excess of 10 Gbps over a conventional FR4 midplane because the orthogonal connector arrangements allow signals to pass directly from the line card to the fabric card without requiring any signal traces on the midplane itself The orthogonal arrangements of the cards that can result from the use of the array of orthogonally arranged connector pairs also avoids the problem of needing to route a large number of signals on the midplane to interconnect line and fabric cards, minimizing the number of layers required. This provides a major simplification compared to existing fabric switches. Thus, by providing an array of such orthogonal connectors, each of a set of horizontally arranged line cards 14 can be connected to each of a set of vertically aligned fabric cards 12 without needing intermediate wiring.
The air inlet is via perforations at the line card 14 front panel. Fans 20 at the fabric cards 12 pull air across the line cards, though the openings 34 in the vertical midplane 30 and across the fabric cards 12.
Line card cooling is naturally redundant since the fabric cards are orientated orthogonally to the line cards. In other words, cooling air over each line card is as a result of the contribution of the effect of the fans of the fabric cards along the line card due to the respective orthogonal alignment. In the case that a fabric card fails or is removed, a portion of the cooling capacity is lost. However, as the cooling is naturally redundant the line cards will continue to operated and be cooled by the remaining fabric cards. Each fan is internally redundant and the fans on the fabric cards 12 can be individually hot swappable without removing the fabric card 12 itself. The fabric card 12 and line card 14 slots can be provided with blockers to inhibit reverse airflow when a card is removed. Empty line card 14 and fabric card 12 slots can be loaded with filler panels that prevent air bypass.
Each power supply has an internal fan that provides cooling for each power supply. Fans at the power supplies pull air through chassis perforations at the rear, across the chassis management cards 18, and through the power supply units 16. Chassis management card cooling is naturally redundant as multiple power supply units cool a single the chassis management card.
Although in the present example cooling is provided by drawing air from the front to the rear, in another example embodiment cooling could be from the rear to the front.
A switch system as described above can provide a switch matrix that includes a configurable, protocol agnostic, packet switching core. It can provide a non-blocking switch connecting a configurable number of ports together. This will be described in more detail in the following.
An example switch matrix can receive as its input data packets of any variety as a raw stream of data along with sideband control signals indicating start/stop, size and routing instructions for the packet. It can buffers these packets as needed in virtual output queues, schedules them for transmission using a distributed, iterative routing mechanism and, once the scheduling is complete, transmits the packets to their destination port. The data path width can be a configurable parameter and, in the present example can be any multiple of 8 (currently supported data widths are 64 and 128 bits).
The basic building block in the example switch matrix is referred to herein as Switch Matrix Unit (XMU). Each XMU implements one port connection. Optionally, an XMU can be configured in a Time Division Multiplex (TDM) mode, wherein it connects to a TDM port and can be configured to function as multiple ports simultaneously. Valid TDM port configurations are dependent on the data width being used. If it is intended to make use of the TDM concept then the data path width can be further constrained to a number of bytes that is a divisible by the number by the number of ports supported.
Theoretically, the number of XMUs 101, etc. instantiated in one switch matrix is unlimited. However, practical implementations can determine how many XMUs are in any given design. It will be appreciated that is a practical implementation, many more than six XMUs will typically be implemented, the choice of six XMUs in
The concept behind a VOQ mechanism is that packets are sorted into separate virtual queues based on their destination, as will be described in more detail hereinafter. In this way, packets bound to different destinations do not block each other. The input data packets are received as a raw stream of data with sideband control signals indicating start/stop, size and routing instructions for the packets. The input logic 113 of the VOQ mechanism uses the packet contents and the sideband control signals to sort the packets into the separate virtual queues.
Arbiter logic is operable to communicate via the switch interconnect 110 with corresponding arbiter logic of the other XMUs 102-106 to schedule the sending of the packets buffered in the VOQ mechanism 112 to appropriate output ports. The arbiter logic is coupled to the VOQ mechanism 112 and also to an output multiplexer 114, which receives packets from the switch interconnect 110 to be passed to the port 111, to schedule and control the operation of the VOQ mechanism 112 and the multiplexer 114.
These Virtual Output Queues 120, 121, 122, 123 are not subject to independent flow control on the input to the XMU 101, etc. The queues exist as a single physical entity in the XMU 101, etc., and the separation into the separate queues is only a virtual separation, as represented by the gate 125.
The Virtual Output Queues form a first level of categorization for incoming packets. A further, second, level of categorization is in the form of packet categories. This second layer of categorization sits on top of the Virtual Output Queue mechanism. Packet Categories can be separately flow controlled on the input to the XMU 101, etc., using the sideband control signals. The number of Packet Categories can be a user defined value. It should be noted, that the XMU can also support a vanilla switch that contains no packet categories.
Accordingly, the total number (#) of queues in an example of an XMU is given by the formula below:
#Queues=(#of Destinations)*(#of Packet Categories)
In an example embodiment, the amount of physical storage assigned to each Packet Category can be run-time configurable, for example using control and status registers (CSRs).
In order to support the Virtual Output Queuing mechanism described above, a buffer management scheme can be implemented. The example scheme used in the present example is a full scatter/gather algorithm which operates on a memory size of 128 bits. On ingress, individual flits (parts) of a packet will be "scattered" (physically) throughout the RAM. On egress, the read state machine will "gather" the flits back together to reconstruct the packet.
In the present example, the scatter/gather algorithm is implemented by maintaining several linked lists per Packet Category:
The Free List contains the addresses of all of the unused buffer space and the Packet Lists contain the addresses of all of the packets currently in the buffer. Note that an address can only exist in one of the linked lists at a time.
When a packet arrives for the packet category in question, the linked lists will begin to change. The first flit of the packet will be written into the first entry contained in the free list 140 and so on. The free list 140 and the appropriate packet lists will then be updated to reflect the new state of the queue.
After some time the lists can start to appear fragmented. Entries containing packets and free space will be interspersed. The lists might look something like the representation of
Control of the linked lists is accomplished through two algorithms, one for packet reads (transmit), one for packet writes (receive). When a packet is received into the queue it is written into the unused portion of the buffer. On each cycle, the incoming flit is always written into the buffer entry indicated by the first entry in the free list. The free list and the appropriate packet list are then updated according to this algorithm:
As a packet is transmitted, the buffer is cleared of that packet and the resulting free space is added to the free list. On each cycle, the outgoing flit is read from the buffer entry indicated by the first entry in the appropriate packet list. The free list and the appropriate packet list are then updated according to this algorithm:
In the present example, all packets transfers are aligned to 32 bit boundaries. If the data path width is 64 or 128 then this implies that packets can start and end in the same cycle. An alignment buffer can be used when writing the packet into the data buffer managed by the scatter/gather algorithm. With an alignment buffer is used, the first flit of packet can be written into the alignment buffer instead of to the regular buffer. The existence of this alignment buffer is hidden from the local port and is not included in the flow control reporting. In this way, the holes in the memory introduced by misaligned packets can be hidden.
In the interest of keeping latency as low as possible, the packet buffers can be designed to support a "cut through" mode (software configurable). In this mode, a packet can be eligible to be transmitted to the destination port before the entire contents of the packet is written into the input buffer.
To determine when a packet is eligible for transmission, the control logic can take into account the relative speed of the source and destination ports. Transmission of a packet does not start until a sufficient portion of the packet is present in the buffer to guarantee that the entire packet can be sent without stalling to wait for the packet to arrive from the input port.
If the input port is faster than the output port then the packet is eligible for transmission as soon as the first flit is received.
If the output port is fast than the input port, then an example formula for determining eligibility can be used as follows:
flits_in =pkt_length−pkt_length*(recv_spd/xmit_spd).
"flits_in" is the total number of flits that must be present in the buffer before the packet is eligible for transmission.
"pkt_length" is the length of the packet in flits,
"recv_spd" is the speed of the receive port in number of flits per cycle.
"xmit_spd" is the speed of the transmit port in number of flits per cycle.
Optionally, a 'minimum arbitration latency' could also be factored into this formula.
It is to be noted that packets that are eventually determined to be bad might already be in flight to the destination device before the error is detected.
When "cut through" mode is turned off, a store and forward scheme can be implemented. With a store and forward scheme, a packet would not be considered eligible for arbitration and transmission until the entire contents of the packet have been placed into the input buffer and the source port has confirmed that the packet is valid.
The virtual output queue structure can help to prevent Head of Line (HoL) blocking between packet categories. Since all packet categories have separate flow control and buffering resources, no amount of congestion occurring on one packet category will affect any other packet category.
The virtual output queue structure can also help to alleviate HoL within a packet category inside an XMU.
If the congestion continues, however, the VOQ will not be able to prevent HoL problems completely within a packet category. Eventually, continued congestion will result in the entire queue for that Packet Category being filled with packets that are bound for the congested port. This problem is illustrated in
Since it is not possible to entirely prevent this kind of head of line blocking in the XMU 121, etc., these conditions should be detected and removed to prevent them from affecting the network any more than necessary. To support this goal, the XMU 121, etc. has a number of built trigger conditions that can be used in HoL detection. These can be used to detect when forward progress has stopped within a Packet Category. The actual trigger conditions included can be configured by the user at compile time.
Once a HoL blocking condition is detected, an external entity 170 is responsible for controlling any recovery needed. To support this, the XMU 101, etc. includes hardware support 180 for flushing the contents of its queues. It can be programmed to flush a specified number of packets from any specified queue, or it can be programmed to flush an entire queue.
The XMU 121, etc. implements a distributed arbitration scheme. There is no central arbiter involved, instead each individual XMU 121, etc. implements input and output arbiters 182 and 184 (see
The distributed scheme is implemented as a three phase process:
This arbitration scheme is repeated every cycle in a pipelined fashion. In this way, the algorithm iterates over the scheduling problem. If a particular input arbiter 182 or output arbiter 184 failed to make a match during the previous iteration then it will continue to arbitrate on the following iterations. Decisions made on previous cycles are fed back into the arbitration algorithm and new connection matches are sought after. Eventually, a maximal set of connections will be reached. This is not an absolute maximal set, but rather a maximal set given all previous decisions (IOW, no backtracking is done).
In the advertise phase, each input arbiter (iarb) will notify each output arbiter (oarb) of any packets that it has received which are routed to that output arbiter. The iarb will send the following information to each oarb:
The weight mechanism is the primary means of arbitration in this phase. Each iarb is assigned a pool of 'weight credit'. The iarb then assigns this weight credit to the packets in his queue. Assigning more weight to a particular packet increases the likelihood that the packet will be requested by the output arbiter. Factors that are taken into account in assigning weight credit to a packet include:
The iarb is designed such that the exact algorithm used in this phase is programmed by the user at compile time. The user can write his own verilog module to define this arbitration algorithm, or he can instantiate one of the predefined arbitration algorithms.
The maximum amount of weight credit an iarb can have can be configured at compile time. The actual amount of weight credit an iarb has can be configured at run-time through state registers (CSRs).
During this phase, the oarb will examine all of the packets, as advertised by all of the iarbs in phase 1, that are available to transmit on his local ports. The oarb will first check if the local port has the necessary credit for transmitting the packets. Any packets for which there is not necessary credit will be eliminated from arbitration. The oarb will then use the advertised weights of the remaining packets to determine which packet it would like to have transmitted. A single packet (per local destination port) is chosen, and a packet request is sent to the corresponding iarb.
Like the iarb, the oarb is also designed such that the exact algorithm used in this phase is programmed by the user at compile time. The user can write his own verilog module to define this arbitration algorithm, or he can instantiate one of the predefined arbitration algorithms.
It is during this final phase of arbitration that connections are made and packets start being transmitted. The iarb gathers all of the requests for transmit from all of the oarbs in the matrix. The iarb then must choose which request to acknowledge. The factors used to make this selection are:
This arbitration algorithm can also defined by the user at compile time. The user can write his own verilog module to define this arbitration algorithm, or can instantiate one of a number of predefined arbitration algorithms.
Time division multiplexing (TDM) is a mechanism introduced to allow a pipeline to be run in various configurations without unnecessary duplication of logic. It is based around the idea that a single pipeline providing a set bandwidth, N, can be split into separate, independent, pipelines whose total bandwidth is still equal to N and all data processing logic can be shared by the individual pipelines. The pipeline can then be configured to work in the desired configuration within the current system.
TDM is implemented through the use of "TDM storage primitives" and the use of a system wide "phase" signal which will be described in subsequent sections.
TDM is an optional feature in the XMU that can be configured by the user at compile time. This allows a single XMU to service more than one local port in a TDM manner. A TDM interface layer is implemented between local ports 192 and 194 and an XMU 121 as shown in
If TDM is enabled, then the number of local ports supported can also be configured. The configurations depend on the data path width being used. If the data path is configured to be 64 bits then the configurations are:
If the data path is configured to be 128 bits then the configurations are:
Furthermore, each of these devices can actually be run at slower speeds through the use of the phase enable signal (see below).
A fundamental building block of an example TDM embodiment is the TDM storage primitive. The storage primitive consists of a duplicate register bit for each supported pipeline in the design. In one example, 4 register bits are provided per bit of storage needed. These four registers are then controlled by a phase signal.
Thus, control of the TDM storage primitive 200 is implemented with the 'phase' signal 202. The phase signal 202 is a globally synchronous signal that indicates which core is active for the current clock cycle. The meaning of the phases is dependant on the configuration of the pipeline. Table 1 summarizes and example indication of which core is active based on the phase signal value and the core configuration.
1 � 128
Core 0
Core 0
Core 0
Core 0
2 � 64
Core 0
Core 1
Core 0
Core 1
4 � 32
Core 0
Core 1
Core 2
Core 3
1 � 64,
Core 0
Core 2
Core 0
Core 3
2 � 32
An additional bit of information is also carried with the phase signal. This is the 'phase enable' signal. Normally, this signal will always be on, indicating that the phase is active. If the signal is toggled off then it indicated that the phase is inactive. In this way a particular core can be run at a fraction of its configured speed. For example, a 32 bit device can be run in 8 bit mode by toggling its phase enable signal on only once every 4 cycles.
This example shows how both data path 220 and state machines 222 can be implemented with TDM primitives 200. In this example, the combination logic is used and is active on each cycle. However, the storage elements are only active on those cycles on which the phase signal indicates that it is their active phase.
In this example Big Endian ordering is assumed on all data buses. The first byte in a packet is always contained in the highest position on the data bus with the rest of the packet following it.
The switch matrix can be used in a number of different configurations. Configuration possibilities can include one or more of the following:
Number of XMU blocks—Determines the number of XMUs instantiated in the complete switch matrix. In a non-TDM environment, on XMU equals one local port. Configuring an XMU as a TDM device allows that XMU to be shared amongst multiple ports (up to 4).
TDM ports per switch matrix—Each switch matrix can be configured to support full TDM with 1-4 ports connected, half TDM with 1-2 ports connected or TDM disabled allowing only a single port to be connected. In a TDM configured switch matrix, separate buffering resources are allocated to each TDM port.
Packet categories—Many protocols provide for various ways of categorizing packets in order to provide separation and differentiation of traffic. This configuration parameter allows each switch matrix to be configured to support any number of packet categories. Each category of packet can have its own buffering resources allocated to it. For example, this feature can support virtual lanes in InfiniBand or virtual channels and/or various packet types (Posted/Non-Posted/Completions) in PCI-Express.
Ordering Rules—Some protocols, like PCI Express, enforce a set of ordering rules on packets of different categories. The XMU will be designed such that these ordering rules are encapsulated in a way that can be easily modified.
Buffer sizes—The total amount of buffering present in a given switch matrix is set first, then it is broken down into min/max buffer space for each port and packet category. The actual amount of space allocated to any given port/packet category can be set with configuration status registers (CSRs).
Multiple read ports—Each input buffer can be configured to have multiple read ports. The switch interconnect can support multiple routing paths out of each XMU. In one example, up to 2 Read Ports can be supported per XMU. This feature is useful for congestion management.
Available contexts—The total number of packets that the switch matrix can maintain at any given time can be specified on a per port per traffic category basis. This can also be specified as 'infinite'. This means that an XMU will always accept new packets as long as there is data credit available for the packet. This feature may, for example, not be needed in PCI Express but could be used, for example in InfiniBand, which has only data credits (no header credits).
Credits per context—Some protocols (PCI Express) maintain separate credit for both header and data. The XMU however, can store the entire contents of the packet in the same buffer. To support header credit, the XMU can be configured to reserve sufficient data credit to support the number of contexts that it is advertising as available. This configuration parameter specifies how much space is to be reserved for this purpose (per context). For a PCIE device this should be set to 16 bytes (largest header). For InfiniBand, this would be set to 0.
Maximum Transfer Unit (MTU)—The switch matrix is intended to support packets up to 8 k bytes in size. It may be useful to specify a smaller supported packet size. The switch matrix can also be configured to support larger packet sizes.
Arbitration Priority/Algorithm—The switch matrix can implement two types of arbitration. It can perform packet category arbitration and can perform port arbitration. These arbiter blocks can be written in a modular way.
HoL triggers—Several HoL/congested related trigger mechanisms can be available. One example is a simple timeout value indicating the number of cycles that a packet can be present in the XMU before it is considered to be blocked.
Priority levels—Within each packet category optionally a priority level can be set that can be used by the routing algorithm.
Fixed packet length and cell interleaving can optionally be used to reduce the complexity of routing in large switches. With this feature the packets sent to the XMU can be of a fixed size. If a supported protocol does not enforce a fixed size the local port can be operable to implement the required segmentation and reassembly.
Accordingly, there has been described, a switch system comprises a switch matrix providing a configurable, protocol agnostic, packet switching core, the switch matrix providing a non-blocking switch connecting a configurable number of ports together.
Although the embodiments above have been described in considerable detail, numerous variations and modifications will become apparent to those skilled in the art once the above disclosure is fully appreciated.
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Mercer manages D-10 win over Cambridge Springs
Cambridge Springs showed it was up for its fight against Mercer throughout most of Friday's District 10 Class A quarterfinal.
By the end, though, the Blue Devils succumbed to too many counterpunches.
The Mustangs never trailed the Blue Devils, but never truly shook off their Crawford County opponents until they scored twice in the last 6 minutes of the fourth quarter to post a 35-14 victory before more than 600 fans at chilly Veterans Stadium.
The Mustangs advanced to next weekend's district semifinals at 9-2, while Cambridge Springs bowed out at 8-3.
"I'm definitely disappointed," Blue Devils coach Clint Rauscher said. "We knew we had to play pretty much a perfect game, but we turned the ball over too much."
Although Mercer didn't directly get points off it, Rauscher said none of the Blue Devils' four turnovers were more numbing than a Mustangs' fumble recovery early in the fourth quarter. It occurred two plays after Cambridge Springs recorded a goal-line stand that left the team trailing 22-14.
"We had the football and we had momentum," Rauscher said. "But we had a mistake in the direction of a play and it cost us."
Mercer missed a field goal on its ensuing possession, but scored the next two times it had the ball. Mustangs quarterback Logan Clarke called his own number for a 10-yard touchdown that made it 29-14, and that was followed by Luke Leonard's 2-yard insurance score with 2 minutes, 27 seconds left.
"We just made too many mistakes," a dejected Zach Stafford said in the Blue Devils' locker room.
Stafford was responsible for Cambridge Springs' biggest play in the game. The sophomore emphatically answered Mercer's first touchdown by returning the ensuing kickoff 74 yards.
Stafford snared the ball on the left side of the field, made a beeline for the right side of the Mustangs' coverage and then cut just as sharply into the open.
Gavin Hohn's 2-point conversion run tied the score at 8-8 with 3:24 left in the first quarter.
Mercer took a permanent lead in the closing seconds of the first quarter, when Clarke capped a 65-yard drive by scoring from 4 yards out. He was hit by two Blue Devils' defenders, but still dove in for the score.
The Mustangs recovered a Devin Walker fumble at the Blue Devils' 30 late in the second quarter, a turnover that led to Mercer's 22-8 halftime lead.
One play after the recovery, Clarke connected on a slant-in pass to Jarred Davis. The split end cut back to the middle of the field and went into the end zone.
Clarke completed 10-of-16 passes for 193 yards. His season total of 2,261 yards is currently the fourth-highest in district history.
Colton Noble rushed for 79 yards in his final game for Cambridge Springs. Noble finished his senior season with 1,592 yards.
Stafford, who ran for 60 yards in the loss, will have two more seasons to accomplish what Cambridge Springs tried to do Friday.
"The bar has been set high," Rauscher said of the Blue Devils. "They know where they need to get to now."
MIKE COPPER can be reached at 870-1614 or by e-mail. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/etncopper.


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Free Veggie Burgers!
Earlier this month, it was announced that Dan Snyder, who owns the greatest football team in the world, has purchased Johnny Rockets, which happens to make the greatest fast-food veggie burger in the world. To celebrate this match made in heaven for vegetarian football fans, PETA has teamed up with Johnny Rockets to give away coupons for free Streamliner veggie burgers throughout the month of March. In the interests of full disclosure here, there are some strings attached, in the sense that you have to buy one first before you get your free one, but it's still a pretty sweet deal—besides, if you can't eat two veggie burgers in a sitting, other vegetarians will think you're a sissy, and nobody wants that. Also, while we're being honest with each other, I totally made up all that stuff about PETA doing this because of the Washington Redskins connection. I just got overexcited and carried away, and I'm sorry. How about I make it up to you with a free veggie burger?
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Yup they're vegan! Jack
Are the bocas they use vegan? most restaurants use the ones with cheese..
They sell Boca Burgers at your supermarket. They're OK but I prefer Morningstar Grillers Prime.
Whaa! They don't have a Johnny Rockets in OK! The Boca Burger sounds so good too. If I visit TX or FL this summer I'll definitely give the "Streamliner" a try!
Johnny Rockets isn't fastfood. It's a sit down restaurant.


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NCAA selection show offers flagrant howls
The outrage on this year's edition of the men's NCAA Tournament Selection Show on Sunday was reserved as much for seeding lines as it was for teams excluded from the field.
UW-Green Bay, which was left out of the tournament, had some level of sympathy from network college basketball analysts.
"I think Wisconsin-Green Bay, I think Louisiana Tech should be in," said Doug Gottlieb of CBS Sports before the tournament field was announced on CBS.
"I thought they should have been in the tournament," Gottlieb said about Green Bay after the field was set. "Alec Brown...didn't play in one of their bad losses at Valparaiso."
But more than the Phoenix, more than Florida State, more than Georgetown, most of the weeping and gnashing of teeth about an excluded team was directed at Larry Brown'sSMU team.
The chairman of the NCAA Division I men's basketball committee and director of athletics at Wake Forest, Ron Wellman, was asked by CBS' Greg Gumbel about the committee's decision to leave UW-Green Bay and SMU out.
"Their were strengths and weaknesses to their résumés," Wellman said. "Probably the one that is grabbing most attention right now is SMU. SMU had an outstanding résumé but...its non-conference strength of schedule was in the 300s which is not very good, obviously. Their overall strength of schedule is 129."
As for UW-Green Bay, Wellman said later on truTV, that the Phoenix had only one victory against a top 50 team and played Division II teams that did not count in their favor.
The loudest howls of dismay came when Louisville was announced as a No. 4 seed. The only analyst we heard who didn't seem to have a problem with it was Clark Kellogg of CBS, who said he had the Cardinals slotted in that neighborhood.
"Absolute shock," said CBS' Seth Davis, after Louisville was announced as a four. "I think in my 11 years being on the bracket show, this is the most surprised I have been. I thought they might be a one. They end up a four. I thought they would be at least a two."
Even at his age, ESPN's Dick Vitale still can bring the rant. He was in good form after Louisville was given a four.
"I think it is absolutely ridiculous, absurd," Vitale said. "Has anyone watched what they have done? It's been unbelievable....Bottom line is, your eye test, man, your eye test. You look at Louisville, there is no way, shape or form that they should be a four seed."
ESPN's Jay Bilas agreed.
Wisconsin, seeded second, made a number of analysts' Final Four lists, but none of them took UW to the championship game.
Kellogg and Davis of CBS put the Badgers there. Bilas and Jay Williams of ESPN put them there too. Digger Phelps and Dick Vitale had UW going as far as the Elite Eight.
The fourth No. 1 in the field went to Virginia.
Kellogg asked Wellman if the committee considered the Badgers a No. 1.
"Wisconsin was not considered all that strongly for the No. 1 line," Wellman said. "A couple of other teams were considered very strongly. Villanova and Michigan were considered very strongly for that line. Virginia's total résumé was very impressive to us. They won the ACC regular season and followed it up a tournament championship."
Bilas thought Wisconsin has a favorable path to the Final Four, facing American in the first round and then the winner of Oregon vs. BYU.
"I love Wisconsin's draw here," Bilas said. "I think as a two seed they got a fabulous draw. Out of all these teams, what's the best ball control, defensive team there? Wisconsin has not protected their lane as well as they have in the past. But I think they are the best defensive team out of this group."
ESPN's Seth Greenberg had some misgivings about UW's defense, and he did not take them to his Elite Eight.
"They're not the defensive team they have been," Greenberg said.
But Bilas argued they don't have to be the best they have been defensively.
"I agree that Wisconsin is better offensively than they are defensively, but they are better defensively than anybody else there. That's the point. Not that Wisconsin is the best defensive team they have been. They're not. But they are better defensively than anybody else in that bracket."
Phelps took UW to his Elite Eight but losing to Oklahoma State.
"Wisconsin, what I love about Bo Ryan, he always teaches consistency," Phelps said. "He always teaches team defense, but offense to where you get in a rhythm. When you look at (Sam) Dekker and (Ben) Brust, they know how to score."
Analysts Charles Barkley and Kenny Smith of Turner Sports offered their opinions about the field in a show on truTV, along with Gary Parrish of CBSSports.com and host Ernie Johnson.
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Retelling of the fairy tale "Bluebeard." Sophia Petheram's godfather has written to invite her to live with him after the death of her father. Sophia gratefully accepts this generous offer, but almost from the moment she arrives at Wyndriven Abbey, things don't go the way she expects. Monseur Bernard, as she calls him, has a tragic past, with 4 dead wives and a dead son. He has violent mood swings, and the refuge she thought she was getting proves to be a trap.
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When 17-year-old Sophia's father dies, she is sent from Boston to Wyndriven Abbey, the Mississippi plantation of her godfather, Monsieur Bernard de Cressac. There, Sophia becomes more and more suspicious of the plantation slaves' living and working conditions, the vine-shrouded outbuildings she is not allowed to explore, and the various treasures belonging to Bernard's former wives, all dead, that she finds in the attic. In spite of her uneasy attraction to Bernard's increasingly romantic intentions, Sophia finds herself falling for Gideon Stone, the local minister. With nods to such classics as Rebecca and Gone with the Wind, first-time novelist Nickerson adds a strictly American spin to her version of the Bluebeard fairy tale. With headstrong Sophia, handsome rake Monsieur de Cressac, and sweet, courageous Reverend Stone wrapped in a romantic love triangle; the glamorous Mississippi plantation as a cover for the somewhat sanitized horrors of slavery; and an increasingly obvious murder mystery; this will beckon readers of historical fiction, romance, and mystery alike. Grades 9-12.
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False memories refer to the mistaken belief that an event that did not occur, did occur. Much of the research on false memories has focused on the antecedents to and the characteristics of such memories, with little focus on the consequences of false memories. In this research, we propose that exposure to an imagery-evoking ad can result in an erroneous belief that an individual has experienced the advertised brand. We also demonstrate that such false experiential beliefs function akin to genuine product experience beliefs with regard to their outcomes (product attitude valence and attitude strength), a finding we call the false experience effect. We further demonstrate two moderators of this effect–plausibility of past experience and evaluation timing.
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