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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 27, 2010
Filed:
Apr. 18, 2007
David L. Darrington, Rochester, MN (US);
Patrick Joseph Mccarthy, Rochester, MN (US);
Amanda Peters, Rochester, MN (US);
Albert Sidelnik, St. Paul, MN (US);
David L. Darrington, Rochester, MN (US);
Patrick Joseph McCarthy, Rochester, MN (US);
Amanda Peters, Rochester, MN (US);
Albert Sidelnik, St. Paul, MN (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
An apparatus and method for overcoming a torus network failure in a parallel computer system. A mesh routing mechanism in the service node of the computer system configures the nodes from a torus to a mesh network when a failure occurs in the torus network. The mesh routing mechanism takes advantage of cutoff registers in each node to route node to node data transfers around the faulty node or network connection.