US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Sept. 1 for "Fabric-less engine io load balancer" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,650, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Hopkinton, Mass.).

"Fabric-less engine io load balancer" was invented by Rong Yu (West Roxbury, Mass.), Earl Medeiros (Fall River, Mass.), Thomas Rogers (Littleton, Mass.) and Ramesh Doddaiah (Westborough, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage array engine has two single-board storage directors with CPU complexes and PCIe switches that are interconnected by a fabric-less PCIe NTB. IO response times of the storage directors are modeled, e.g., as a function of controller memory interface bandwidth utilization, switch utilization, fall-through time of a non-mirrored segm...