Patent ID: 6145071
Filing Date: 2000-11-07
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A method of operating a multi-processor computing system comprising a plurality of layers, each layer comprising dual ported processors, a plurality of busses, each bus supervised by a supervisory processor, one of said plurality of busses constituting an input bus to processors of the first layer and one of said plurality of busses constituting an output bus and one port of each processor of a first layer connected to said input bus and one port of each processor of a last layer connected to said output bus and one or more intermediate busses connected to one port of processors of a preceding layer and one port of processors of a succeeding layer, comprising:loading incoming blocks of data sequentially to respective processors of said first layer for processing, andloading to each of said respective processors a copy of a block of data which duplicates a block of data loaded into another processor.