Title :
Accelerating HPC workloads with dynamic adaptation of a software-defined hybrid electronic/optical interconnect
Author :
Christodoulopoulos, K. ; Katrinis, K. ; Ruffini, M. ; O´Mahony, D.
Author_Institution :
CTVR, Trinity Coll. Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Abstract :
We prototyped a dynamically adaptable hybrid electronic/optical interconnect using commodity switches and measured its reconfiguration delay. By reconfiguring the network at runtime to avoid congestion we accelerated the execution of parallel workloads in a real testbed.
Keywords :
optical communication; optical interconnections; parallel processing; HPC workload; congestion avoidance; high performance computing; software-defined hybrid electronic-optical interconnect; Delays; Network topology; Optical fiber networks; Optical packet switching; Optical switches; Servers; Topology;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), 2014
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-5575-2994-7
DOI :
10.1364/OFC.2014.Th2A.11
