Title :
Interconnection networks: dimensions in design
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN, USA
Abstract :
The interconnection network is the switching fabric responsible for providing communication between all processors in a parallel computer. Much research has been directed towards developing superior interconnection networks, but there is no general agreement that this problem is solved. The speakers for this panel session were asked to address the following question: for a given range of number of commodity high-performance processors (e.g. 256 to 1024) what interconnection network should be used to build a general purpose MIMD parallel machine
Keywords :
multiprocessor interconnection networks; parallel processing; performance evaluation; commodity high-performance processors; general purpose MIMD parallel machine; interconnection networks; parallel computer; switching fabric; Multiprocessor interconnection; Parallel processing;
Conference_Titel :
Parallel Processing, 1996. Proceedings of the 1996 ICPP Workshop on Challenges for
Conference_Location :
Ithaca, NY
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7623-X
DOI :
10.1109/ICPPW.1996.538589
