Effect of message length and processor speed on the performance of the bidirectional ring-based multiprocessor

Author

Oi, Hitoshi ; Ranganathan, N.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Univ. of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA

fYear

1997

fDate

12-15 Oct 1997

Firstpage

267

Lastpage

272

Abstract

This paper presents a comparative study of the performance of the bidirectional ring and the unidirectional ring multiprocessor, with emphasis on the effect of system parameters, specifically, the message length and the relative processor speed. The choice of these parameters may not be optimum due to the performance cost tradeoffs in practice. Our study shows that the use of bidirectional ring is more effective in such suboptimum system configurations and can improve the processor utilization by up to 35%

Keywords

distributed memory systems; multiprocessor interconnection networks; parallel architectures; performance evaluation; shared memory systems; bidirectional ring; bidirectional ring-based multiprocessor; comparative study; distributed shared memory architecture; interconnection networks; message length; performance; performance cost tradeoffs; performance evaluation; processor speed; processor utilization; slotted ring; unidirectional ring; Analytical models; Computer science; Cost function; Delay; Memory architecture; Multiprocessing systems; Multiprocessor interconnection networks; Network interfaces; Performance analysis; Wiring;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Design: VLSI in Computers and Processors, 1997. ICCD '97. Proceedings., 1997 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Austin, TX

ISSN

1063-6404

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8206-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCD.1997.628878

Filename

628878