1. A hybrid routing-computation fabric apparatus, the apparatus comprising: a plurality of general purpose processing cores; a plurality of dedicated routing cores communicatively coupled with the plurality processor cores via internal data channels; a plurality of externally facing networking ports communicatively and selectively coupled with the routing cores where any one routing core can exchange data with remote devices via any one of the networking ports; and a topology manager configured to coordinate a routing topology and an application topology with other fungible hybrid routing-computation fabric apparatus by dedicating a first general purpose processor, a first routing core, and a first external port to the application topology, and by dedicating a second routing core and at least two external ports to the routing topology.