| 摘要 |
An object is to provide an information processing apparatus capable of improving the availability as a system while improving the reliability of a data transfer path and a data transfer method. An information processing apparatus has a data transfer path branching in a tree structure, from a root node to a plurality of nodes while communicably coupling therebetween and transmitting serial data between the root node and the plurality of nodes, including two internode data transfer paths provided between at least a pair of nodes of the plurality of nodes, through which serial data transfer is performed; and a routing processing unit provided to each terminal nodes that are the nodes on both ends of the internode data transfer path, transfers the return data from the transmission destination node to the transmission source node by using the same internode data transfer path as the internode data transfer path used for data transfer to the transmission destination node, when each of the terminal nodes transfers data received from any of another nodes being a transmission source to any of the nodes being a transmission destination via the other terminal node. |
