Patent ID: 8185602
Filing Date: 2012-05-22
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A computer system comprising a plurality of processor clusters, each cluster including a plurality of local nodes and an interconnection controller interconnected by a local point-to-point architecture, wherein the interconnection controller in each cluster comprises a plurality of protocol engines operable to concurrently process-transactions, the plurality of protocol engines including a plurality of remote protocol engines for processing transactions targeting remote memory and a plurality of local protocol engines for processing transactions targeting local memory, and wherein at least one of the interconnection controller and the local nodes in each cluster is operable to map the transactions to the protocol engines according to destination information associated with the transactions, and wherein the plurality of protocol engines in each interconnection controller includes at least one coherent protocol engine for processing transactions in a coherent domain and at least one non conherent protocol engine for processing transactions in a noncoherent domain.