The Interface Message Processor (IMP) was the packet switching node used to interconnect participant networks to the ARPANET from the late 1960s to 1989...

The Message Passing Interface (MPI) is a standardized and portable message-passing standard designed to function on parallel computing architectures. The...

campuses. In August 1968, BBN was selected by ARPA to build the Interface Message Processors (IMPs) for the ARPANET, the precursor to the modern Internet...

dynamic routing. In 1969, ARPA awarded the contract to build the Interface Message Processors (IMPs) for the network to Bolt Beranek & Newman (BBN). The design...

responsible for the design of the communication interfaces and other special hardware for the Interface Message Processor. In 1972 he headed the first delegation...

A front-end processor (FEP), or a communications processor, is a small-sized computer which interfaces to the host computer, a number of networks, such...

its beginnings in 1972 when the need for a second-generation interface message processor (IMP) became apparent. At that time, the BBN had already installed...

Presentation slides. (Online copy). Walden, D. C. (1972). "The Interface Message Processor, Its Algorithms, and Their Implementation". In: AFCET Journées...

M Ornstein; William R Crowther; David C Walden (1970). "The interface message processor for the ARPA computer network". Proceedings of the May 5-7, 1970...

The "core router" was a dedicated minicomputer called an IMP Interface Message Processor. Link speeds increased steadily, requiring progressively more...