Method and apparatus for managing transfer of transport operations from a cluster in a processor

An apparatus comprising:

• an arbitration module configured to select, at a clock cycle in a first memory cluster, at least one transport operation destined to at least one destination memory cluster, from one or more transport operations, each transport operation comprising transfer of data, related to a corresponding processing operation, the selecting based at least in part on priority information associated with the one or more transport operations or current states of available processing resources allocated to the first memory cluster in each of a subset of one or more other memory clusters;
• a communication interface configured to initiate the transport of the selected at least one transport operation;
• and
• a resources state manager configured to update, in at least one other memory cluster, a current state of available processing resources allocated to the first memory cluster, corresponding to the selected at least one transport operation.