ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,371, issued on July 29, was assigned to XILINX INC. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Self-reliant SmartNICs" was invented by Guanwen Zhong (Singapore).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments herein describe a self-reliant Network Interface Controller (NIC) that can perform the maintenance and control operations part of performing a distributed computation which relies on data received from multiple peers (or nodes) that are connected by a network. Rather than a CPU-driven adaptive compute where the CPU(s) in a host perform maintenance and control operations, the embodiments herein shift these operations to the NIC. The NIC can perform control ...