Methods for producing construction material utilizing loose pieces of aggregate, enzyme producing bacteria, an amount of urea and an amount of calcium ions. Encodings range from a minimum-rate encoding to a maximum-rate encoding. The VPEs disclosed herein include a plurality of vector processing stages each having vector processing blocks that have programmable data path configurations for performing Radix-2X butterfly vector operations to perform Fast Fourier Transform vector processing operations efficiently. The aggregator device produces a connection table that maps each node on the network to a record that stores information about traffic to or from the node.