Patent ID: 7596321

Claim:
A method comprising: time division multiplexing (TDM) at least two inter-system channel (ISC) data streams, each of which employs an ISC link protocol, to create a TDM multiplexed data stream within a parallel computing environment, wherein the time division multiplexing comprises at least one of inserting or deleting words in at least one data stream of the at least two ISC data streams, wherein the at least two ISC data streams comprise at least some of idle sequences, frame sequences and continuous sequences, and wherein said at least one of inserting or deleting comprises employing a first protocol for idle sequences and frame sequences and a second protocol for continuous sequences within the at least one ISC data stream of the at least two ISC data streams, the first protocol and the second protocol being different protocols, and wherein both the first protocol and the second protocol are employed in the time division multiplexing; and outputting the TDM multiplexed data stream for forwarding across a network.