Thinking Machines Corporation

David L Satterfield

James P Tardiff

Marshall Alan Isman

Edward C Parish

David S Wells

William A Nesheim

Thomas J Moser

Eric L Rowe

Sharon E Gillett

Robert A Doolittle

A computer comprising a plurality of processing elements and an input/output processor interconnected by a routing network. The routing network transfers messages between the processing elements and the input/output processor. The processing elements perform processing operations in connection with data received from the input/output processor in messages transferred over the routing network and transferring processed data to the input/output processor in messages over the routing network, the processing elements being connected as a first selected series of leaf nodes. The input/output processor includes a plurality of input/output buffers connected as a second selected series of leaf nodes of the routing network for generating messages for transfer over the routing network to a series of processing elements forming at least a selected subset of the processing elements during an input/output operation.

Input/output system for parallel computer for performing parallel file

A high performance communications interface device for connecting a high speed computer to a high performance communications bus. The high performance communications interface device includes a high performance communications interface device processor, a source interface, a destination interface and at least one I/O processor which controls the transfer of data to the high speed computer from the high performance communications bus and from the high speed computer to the high performance communications bus.

High performance communications interface for multiplexing a plurality

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David L Satterfield