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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 04, 2011
Filed:
Apr. 01, 2008
Charles Francis Marino, Round Rock, TX (US);
John Thomas Holloway, Jr., Austin, TX (US);
Praveen S Reddy, Austin, TX (US);
William John Starke, Round Rock, TX (US);
Charles Francis Marino, Round Rock, TX (US);
John Thomas Holloway, Jr., Austin, TX (US);
Praveen S Reddy, Austin, TX (US);
William John Starke, Round Rock, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A symmetric multi-processing (SMP) processor includes a primary interconnect trunk for communication of information between multiple compute elements situated along the primary interconnect trunk. The processor also includes a secondary interconnected trunk that may be oriented perpendicular with respect to the primary interconnect trunk. The secondary interconnect trunk communicates information off-chip via a number of I/O interfaces at the perimeter of the processor chip. The I/O interfaces may be distributed uniformly along portions of the perimeter.