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Routing Thoughts Poggio, Tomaso A In a parallel machine with many thousands of processors the routing of information between processors is a key task, which turns out to require as much hardware and perhaps more sophistication than local computing itself. There are at least two basic engineering solutions to the routing problem: one followed by most research projects is of the "packet switching" type, that behaves as a mail service, with data carrying addresses to route the packet through the...