Simulated behaviour of large scale SCI rings and Tori

Author

Cha, Hojung ; Daniel, Ron, Jr. ; Knowles, Alan

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Manchester Univ., UK

fYear

1993

fDate

1-4 Dec 1993

Firstpage

266

Lastpage

274

Abstract

SCI (Scalable Coherent Interface) is a new IEEE standard for high speed interconnect in parallel processors. It is attracting interest because of its high bandwidth (1 GByte/sec/link) and low latency. The default SCI topology is a ring, which does not scale well to large numbers of processors. This paper uses stochastic and trace-driven simulations to compare the performance of SCI-based parallel computers with a ring topology to those based on a torus topology. We also look at the effects of varying some of the internals of the SCI components

Keywords

multistage interconnection networks; parallel architectures; system buses; virtual machines; IEEE standard; SCI-based parallel computers; Scalable Coherent Interface; default SCI topology; high speed interconnect; parallel processors; stochastic simulation; torus topology; trace-driven simulations; Bandwidth; Computational modeling; Computer science; Computer simulation; Delay; Digital signal processing chips; Large-scale systems; Network topology; Neural networks; Switches;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel and Distributed Processing, 1993. Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

Dallas, TX

Print_ISBN

0-8186-4222-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SPDP.1993.395523

Filename

395523

Link To Document

https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=2627870