Patent ID: 7382721

Claim:
A nodal network for use in a multiprocessor computer system, comprising: a plurality of nodes grouped into different classes, said classes including at least a first class of fully interconnected nodes and a second class of fully interconnected nodes, said second class having at least three nodes including a destination node, said first class having at least three nodes including a source node, said source node having an information packet to be communicated to said destination node, said source node configured to divide said information packet into segments and to disperse a plurality of said segments among said nodes of said first class by transmitting each of said plurality of said segments directly to a respective one of said nodes of said first class such that said plurality of said segments are received by different ones of said nodes of said first class, each of said nodes of said first class receiving a respective one of said plurality of said segments directly from said source node configured to transmit the respective one segment received by said each node of said first class directly to a respective one of said nodes of said second class such that said plurality of said segments are received by different ones of said nodes of said second class, wherein said first class is not fully interconnected with said second class, and wherein each of said plurality of nodes comprises a respective processor of said multiprocessor computer system.