US Patent 7461236 Transferring data in a parallel processing environment

An integrated circuit includes a plurality of tiles. Each tile comprises a processor; and a switch including switching circuitry to forward data over data paths from other tiles to the processor and to switches of other tiles according to a switch instruction indicating an input port to which each of multiple output ports of the switch is to be coupled. The switch is able to operate in a first mode in which successive input data arriving at the switch are forwarded according to a different switch instruction, and a second mode in which successive input data arriving at the switch are forwarded according to the same switch instruction.