Patent ID: 8909047

Claim:
An apparatus, comprising a modular interconnect including an mn-by-mn fully connected, direct broadcast, point-to-point, all-to-all interconnect fabric, wherein the mn-by-mn fully connected, direct broadcast, point-to-point, all-to-all interconnect fabric is non-blocking and congestion free, and wherein m is an integer≧2 and n is an integer≧2, wherein the interconnect fabric includes no switches and no routers, wherein the mn-by-mn fully connected, direct broadcast, point-to-point, all-to-all interconnect fabric includes m direct-broadcast, point-to-point n-by-n interconnects each of which is non-blocking and congestion free and wherein the mn-by-mn fully connected, direct broadcast, point-to-point, all-to-all interconnect fabric includes m electro-optic node interface controllers, each of the m electro-optic node interface controllers coupled to each of the m direct-broadcast, point-to-point n-by-n interconnects.