Patent ID: 8131878

Claim:
A network of processing units comprising: a first processing unit sub-network; a second processing unit sub-network; a bus coupled with each processing unit of the first processing unit sub-network and of the second processing unit sub-network; a first switch adapted to disrupt communication to the first processing unit sub-network via the bus and adapted to allow communication to the first processing unit sub-network from a controller via the first switch while communication to the first processing unit sub-network via the bus is disrupted; a second switch adapted to disrupt communication to the second processing unit sub-network via the bus and adapted to allow communication to the second processing unit sub-network from the controller via the second switch while communication to the second processing unit sub-network via the bus is disrupted; and the controller coupled with the first and the second switches and adapted to dynamically restructure the network of processing units and to control the first and the second switches to disrupt communication via the bus in accordance with dynamically restructuring the network of processing units, the controller adapted for data exchange with the first processing unit sub-network via the first switch and with the second processing unit sub-network via the second switch.