Title :
Fault-tolerant meshes with efficient layouts
Author :
Yamada, Toshinori ; Ueno, Shuichi
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Tokyo Inst. of Technol., Japan
Abstract :
This paper presents a practical fault-tolerant architecture for mesh parallel machines that has only one spare processor and has only six communication links per processor while tolerating one processor fault and one communication link fault, or two communication link faults. We also show that the architecture presented here can be laid out efficiently in a linear area with wire length at most six
Keywords :
digital signal processing chips; fault tolerant computing; graph theory; network topology; parallel architectures; communication link fault; communication links; fault-tolerant architecture; fault-tolerant meshes; linear area; mesh parallel machines; processor fault; spare processor; wire length; Digital signal processing chips; Fault tolerance; Iron; Parallel machines; Signal processing; Wire;
Conference_Titel :
Circuits and Systems, 1996., IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on
Conference_Location :
Seoul
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3702-6
DOI :
10.1109/APCAS.1996.569315