Performance evaluation of unicast and multicast communication in three-dimensional mesh architectures

Author

Ebrahimi, Masoumeh ; Daneshtalab, Masoud ; Liljeberg, Pasi ; Tenhunen, Hannu

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. Technol., Univ. of Turku, Turku, Finland

fYear

2010

fDate

23-24 Sept. 2010

Firstpage

161

Lastpage

162

Abstract

As the multicast communication is utilized commonly in various parallel applications, the performance can be significantly improved by supporting multicast operations at the hardware level. In this paper, we define several factors of efficiency for unicast/multicast communication such as average of unicast latency, average of maximum multicast latency and level of parallelism in 3D mesh NoCs. Then, we propose analytical models for measuring the efficiency factors of a method in unicast/multicast communication called vertical block partitioning.

Keywords

multicast communication; network-on-chip; performance evaluation; routing protocols; 3D mesh NoC; maximum multicast latency; multicast communication; parallel application; performance evaluation; three-dimensional mesh architecture; unicast communication; unicast latency; vertical block partitioning; Mesh networks; Multicast communication; Parallel processing; Routing; System recovery; Three dimensional displays; Unicast;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Architecture and Digital Systems (CADS), 2010 15th CSI International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Tehran

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6267-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CADS.2010.5623591

Filename

5623591