Switch-based personal computer interconnection apparatus

Details Switch-based personal computer interconnection apparatus Switch-based personal computer interconnection apparatus

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G06F 13/38 (2006.01) G06F 13/40 (2006.01) G06F 15/173 (2006.01) H04L 12/50 (2006.01) H04Q 11/04 (2006.01) H04L 12/18 (2006.01)

Patent

CA 2099033

SWITCH-BASED PERSONAL COMPUTER INTERCONNECTION APPARATUS ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE Disclosed is a modularly expandable switch-based apparatus which is used to interconnect multiple Personal Computers as nodes of a parallel system. The invention includes a bus-based expansion card which is inserted into a card slot in each of the Personal Computers to provide an adaptation from the Personal Computer MicroChannel to the interface to a multi-stage switch network. Thus, the disclosed invention provides a means for extending the MicroChannel architectures to either massively parallel systems or thousands of I/O device taps or a combination of the two. This is accomplished by using electronic switches to interconnect various Personal Computers, where each computer has a unique local bus that can be composed of 1 to 8 MicroChannel taps (card slots). An expansion card containing a bus architecture converter unit is used in one expansion card slot in each Personal Computer to adapt the node to the switch network. The result is that the Personal Computers are fully interconnected and capable of sending data, communications, and/or messages between any two Personal Computers, which become nodes of the parallel system.

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