Title :
Reliability of cluster-based multiprocessor systems
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Florida Atlantic Univ., Boca Raton, FL, USA
Abstract :
The reliability of a cluster-based multiprocessor system is analytically evaluated using modeling techniques. The results indicate that the cluster-based system has low reliability relative to the crossbar and multiple-bus systems. The weaknesses of the cluster-based system architecture, as far as reliability is concerned, are identified and a slight modification of the system architecture is proposed as a remedy. Using the same analytical modeling techniques, the reliability of the modified cluster-based systems´s reliability is close to that of crossbar and multiple-bus systems
Keywords :
fault tolerant computing; multiprocessing systems; multiprocessor interconnection networks; cluster-based multiprocessor systems; cluster-based system architecture; crossbar; modeling; multiple-bus systems; reliability; Analytical models; Computer architecture; Computer science; Costs; Multiprocessing systems; Multiprocessor interconnection networks; Performance analysis; Reliability engineering; Switches; Telecommunication network reliability;
Conference_Titel :
Distributed Computing Systems, 1992., Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Yokohama
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-2865-0
DOI :
10.1109/ICDCS.1992.235038
