TY - GEN
T1 - A deadlock-free non-minimal fully adaptive routing using virtual cut-through switching
AU - Nishikawa, Yuri
AU - Koibuchi, Michihiro
AU - Matsutani, Hiroki
AU - Amano, Hideharu
PY - 2010/10/27
Y1 - 2010/10/27
N2 - System area networks (SANs), which usually employ virtual cut-through switching, have been used to connect hosts in modern PC clusters and massively parallel computers. In this paper, we propose a non-minimal fully adaptive deadlock-free routing mechanism for virtual-cut-through networks called "Semi-deflection". Semi-deflection routing guarantees deadlock-free packet transfer without use of virtual channels by allowing non-blocking transfer between specific pairs of routers. As the result of throughput evaluation, Semideflection routing improved throughput by up to 26 percent compared with that of north-last turn model, which is a typical adaptive routing, and also reduced latency.
AB - System area networks (SANs), which usually employ virtual cut-through switching, have been used to connect hosts in modern PC clusters and massively parallel computers. In this paper, we propose a non-minimal fully adaptive deadlock-free routing mechanism for virtual-cut-through networks called "Semi-deflection". Semi-deflection routing guarantees deadlock-free packet transfer without use of virtual channels by allowing non-blocking transfer between specific pairs of routers. As the result of throughput evaluation, Semideflection routing improved throughput by up to 26 percent compared with that of north-last turn model, which is a typical adaptive routing, and also reduced latency.
KW - Deadlock-free routing
KW - NoC
KW - Non-minimal fully adaptive routing
KW - SAN
KW - Turn-model
KW - Virtual cut-through
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U2 - 10.1109/NAS.2010.50
DO - 10.1109/NAS.2010.50
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:77958113890
SN - 9780769541341
T3 - Proceedings - 2010 IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture and Storage, NAS 2010
SP - 431
EP - 438
BT - Proceedings - 2010 IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture and Storage, NAS 2010
T2 - 5th IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture and Storage, NAS 2010
Y2 - 15 July 2010 through 17 July 2010
ER -