butterfly network

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butterfly network [¦bəd·ər‚flī ¦net‚wərk]

(computer science)

A scheme that connects the units of a multiprocessing system and needsnstages to connect 2ⁿprocessors; at each stage a switch is thrown, depending on a particular bit in the addresses of the processors being connected.

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