Multiprocessor multisystem communications network
A network of multiprocessor systems is described, including: multiprocessor systems, each of the systems containing at least one processor connected to an interprocessor bus; node interfaces, each connected to a respective one of the interprocessor busses, and connected to each other in the form of a ring by a data link; a buffer memory in each of the node interfaces, having storage locations for temporarily storing message packets to be transferred to any one of the processors in the network. The storage locations are partitioned into groups of storage locations, each one of the groups corresponding to a particular one of the processors in the network which is the destination processors for all of the message packets placed at locations therein; control means in each of the node interfaces for controlling the transfer of the message packets.
- Assignee:
- Tandem Computers Incorporated, Cupertino, CA
- Patent Number(s):
- US 4667287
- OSTI ID:
- 6342377
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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