SCILab-a simulation environment for the Scalable Coherent Interface

Author

Wu, Bin ; Bogaerts, Andre

Author_Institution

Dept. of Phys., Oslo Univ., Norway

fYear

1995

fDate

18-20 Jan 1995

Firstpage

242

Lastpage

247

Abstract

The IEEE Std. 1596-1992 for the Scalable Coherent Interface (SCI) specifies a topology-independent communication protocol with the possibility of connecting up to 64 K nodes. SCILab is a collection of tools to simulate the behavior of SCI based networks. It is aimed at studying the influence of linkspeed, interface design and SCI protocols under various loading conditions for different topologies. Effects due to the SCI bandwidth allocation, queue acceptance and cache coherency protocols are taken into account. Large SCI systems consisting of rings interconnected by switches can be investigated. Examples of SCI nodes whose behavior can be specified by user definable parameters are also included in the model. The simulations produce statistics on the SCI link traffic, bandwidth available to SCI nodes such as processors and memories, and the latency of SCI packets traveling through a network from source to target

Keywords

multistage interconnection networks; protocols; system buses; virtual machines; SCI bandwidth allocation; SCI based networks; SCI link traffic; SCI nodes; SCI protocols; SCILab; Scalable Coherent Interface; cache coherency protocols; interface design; latency; linkspeed; queue acceptance; simulation environment; topology-independent communication protocol; Bandwidth; Channel allocation; Delay; Joining processes; Network topology; Protocols; Statistics; Switches; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems, 1995. MASCOTS '95., Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Durham, NC

Print_ISBN

0-8186-6902-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MASCOT.1995.378680

Filename

378680