16. The data center of claim 15 , wherein said at least three computing units are configured to communicate the control data using a plurality of slots defined with respect to frequency and time.
17. A data center, comprising:
plural computing units, each computing unit comprising:
processing resources for performing a computing function;
general-purpose memory resources for storing data;
at least two wireless communication elements, each for communicating with at least one other computing unit using wireless communication, and each forming a directionally-focused beam; and
switching resources for coupling together the processing resources, general-purpose memory resources, and said at least one two wireless communication elements,
the plural computing units comprising distributed nodes in a wireless switching fabric, the switching fabric configured to transmit payload data from a source computing unit to a destination computing unit within the data center,
at least one computing unit involved in transmission of the payload data being configured to use at least part of its general-purpose memory resources as a buffer for temporarily storing the payload data.
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