Simulated behaviour of large scale SCI rings and tori

Hojung Cha, Ron Daniel, Alan Knowles

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Abstract

SCI (Scalable Coherent Interface) is a new IEEE standard for a 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.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 5th IEEE Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing
Editors Anon
PublisherPubl by IEEE
Pages266-274
Number of pages9
ISBN (Print)081864222X
Publication statusPublished - 1993
EventProceedings of the 5th IEEE Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing - Dallas, TX, USA
Duration: 1993 Dec 11993 Dec 4

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 5th IEEE Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing

Other

OtherProceedings of the 5th IEEE Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing
CityDallas, TX, USA
Period93/12/193/12/4

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • General Engineering

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