TRANSACTION PROCESSING USING MULTIPLE PROTOCOL ENGINES IN SYSTEMS HAVING MULTIPLE MULTI-PROCESSOR CLUSTERS

摘要

A multi-processor computer system is described in which transaction processi ng in each cluster of processors is distributed among multiple protocol engines . Each cluster includes a plurality of local nodes and an interconnection controller interconnected by a local point-to-point architecture. The interconnection controller in each cluster comprises a plurality of protocol engines for processing transactions. Transactions are distributed among the protocol engines using destination information associated with the transactions.