Appeal No. 96-0950
Application No. 07/727,932
BACKGROUND
The claims
Appellants’ Claim 1 is illustrative of the invention
involved in the present appeal:
1. A data gathering system in a parallel computer,
said data gathering system comprising:
a common bus;
a plurality of processors connected in parallel
through said common bus,
one of said plurality of processors being a
reception processor which comprises a reception
buffer for temporarily storing data gathered from
other of said processors, and
said other processors of said plurality of
processors being transmitting processors, each
respective transmitting processor comprising:
a transmission buffer for temporarily
storing the data to be transferred, and
transfer control means for controlling
data transmission from the transmission
buffer to said common bus by checking a
number of the data on said common bus, for
sending a ready signal when ready to transfer
the data and for determining an order of
transfer by the respective transmitting
processor of said plurality of transmitting
processors; and
AND means for receiving the ready signals from
said plurality of processors and for outputting a
reception signal to said plurality of processors.
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