Ethernet addressing via physical location for massively parallel systems
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Apr 29, 2004
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Aug 22, 2003
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Feb 25, 2002
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In a massively parallel system, a method and apparatus for uniquely assigning a MAC address to a device encodes the MAC address with a physical location of the device. The method and apparatus include configuring device interconnections of the parallel system with physical topological information such as a rack number, a midplane number, a card number, and a chip number. A device or node with a physical location encoded MAC address may then be interrogated by location for test, diagnostic, and program loading purposes.
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