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Bamboo Systems Assigned UK Patent for System and Method for Bridging Computer Resources

Permits different classes of data bridges between I/O resources while maintaining compatibility of existing application interfaces.

Bamboo Systems, a provider of ARM-based servers architected to meet the needs of software design and data center demands, has been granted a patent from the UK IP Office.

B1000n Series ARM Server

Bamboo B1000n Series Arm Server

Patent GB2574800 with title: “A system and method for bridging computer resources“ permits different classes of data bridges between I/O resources while maintaining the compatibility of existing application interfaces. This means applications do not need to be rewritten to use vendor-specific hardware for a specific capability. They are now able to benefit from the performance of hardware offload and the capability of high performance devices and interfaces.

Computers and servers increasingly suffer performance loss at the interface of network and storage resources. Although some recent technologies have being introduced to remedy this, most are not compatible with the majority of software and applications or that require multiple, different classes of resources.

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Bamboo Armm Servers Modular Product Family

Our patented system was developed to reduce the challenges of incompatibility between data center interfaces. This will have far reaching implications in the market for enabling new high-performance technologies to work together,” said Tony Craythorne, CEO. “This patent is important to Bamboo as it provides us with the IP protection for our proprietary research and how it extends to our ARM-based server architecture. The consequences to the data center market as a whole is significant for the reduction in pain points this offers.

The concept of creating a fast-path for a specific resource was previously researched in conjunction with The University of Manchester, UK. The research found that for storage, such an approach maintained up to 82% lower latency, up to 12x higher throughput, and up to 10x more energy efficiency vs. the baseline storage path of a Linux kernel.

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Bamboo PANDA Architecture

The companys patented Parallel ARM Node Designed Architecture (PANDA) utilizes embedded systems methodologies to run modern microservices-based workloads while consuming minimal energy and delivering ihigh density for high throughput computing. PANDA systems utilize ARM processors to deliver individually balanced servers, reducing many of the well-known traditional server architecture bottlenecks often caused by very large processors having to share limited resources.

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