High speed serial communication in a future parallel computer architecture

Author

Nakajo, Hironor ; Kaneda, Yukio

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. & Syst. Eng., Kobe Univ., Japan

fYear

1997

fDate

22-24 Oct 1997

Firstpage

125

Lastpage

132

Abstract

In this paper, we introduce the concept and hardware configuration of a high speed serial communication interface called STAFF-Link. STAFF-link is used in a massively parallel computer JUMP-I for connecting processing elements and I/O subsystems and also used for an I/O network between I/O units. Furthermore have designed and manufactured a STAFF-Link router board for a high performance workstation cluster. In the workstation cluster, we have implemented a distributed shared-memory system based on a software controlled cache. The system demonstrates that a workstation cluster connected with a lot of such serial links is one of hopeful candidates of future high performance computing system

Keywords

distributed memory systems; input-output programs; parallel architectures; shared memory systems; I/O subsystems; JUMP-I; STAFF-Link; distributed shared-memory system; future high performance computing system; high speed; massively parallel computer; serial communication interface; workstation cluster; Bandwidth; Computer architecture; Computer networks; Concurrent computing; Control systems; High performance computing; Joining processes; Manufacturing; Parallel processing; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Innovative Architecture for Future Generation High-Performance Processors and Systems, 1997

Conference_Location

Maui, HI

ISSN

1537-3223

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8424-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IWIA.1997.670418

Filename

670418