Impact of interconnection networks and application granularity to compound cluster environments

Author

Pinto, Luiz C. ; Mendonça, Rodrigo P. ; Dantas, M.A.R.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. & Stat., Santa Catarina Univ., Florianopolis

fYear

2008

fDate

6-9 July 2008

Firstpage

468

Lastpage

473

Abstract

Network-on-chip architectures are becoming commercial off-the-shelf technology to gather computational resources in cluster environments. However, since legacy of the Ethernet standard is overwhelming on account of numerous devices available in many organizations, aspects of the application such as the ratio of computation and communication should be considered in the design of a computational configuration. In this article, it is presented a study of the impact of interconnection networks to execute applications with different levels of granularity, considering Ethernet and Myrinet interconnection networks.

Keywords

interconnections; local area networks; network-on-chip; Ethernet standard; Myrinet interconnection networks; compound cluster environments; computational resources; network-on-chip architectures; networks interconnection; off-the-shelf technology; Communication standards; Computer architecture; Computer networks; Costs; Ethernet networks; Libraries; Multiprocessor interconnection networks; Network-on-a-chip; Parallel algorithms; Parallel processing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computers and Communications, 2008. ISCC 2008. IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

Marrakech

ISSN

1530-1346

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2702-4

Electronic_ISBN

1530-1346

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCC.2008.4625632

Filename

4625632