Hardware communications infrastructure supporting location transparency and dynamic partial reconfiguration

A communication system, comprising:

• one or more integrated circuits comprising at least one of a local integrated circuit or a remote integrated circuit to the local integrated circuit;
• at least one sending application hardware module located on the local integrated circuit, each sending application hardware module having a sending logic that controls the sending of messages from the sending application hardware module;
• at least one receiving application hardware module located on at least one of the local integrated circuit or the remote integrated circuit;
• wherein a sending application hardware module sends messages to a receiving application hardware module without its sending logic having been constructed with a priori knowledge of the address of or the path to said receiving application hardware module, and
• a dispatch logic located on the local integrated circuit that routes at least one or more of:
• A) messages transmitted from the sending application hardware module on to one or more receiving application hardware modules on the local integrated circuit, or
• B) messages transmitted from the sending application hardware module for transport to one or more receiving application hardware modules located on a remote integrated circuit.