Performance Impacts of Arbitration Functions of Interconnection Network Router for Steady/Unsteady Communications

Abstract

Interconnection network is one of the important key components for both organization and performance in parallel computing systems. Particularly, communication efficiency determines computing performance in massively parallel systems. Therefore, many researches address router functions as interconnection network methods. Most of such researches focus on routing algorithm and its related issues, thus they offer insufficient discussions on arbitration functions. This paper presents comprehensive experimental results in arbitration functions. The simulation results reveal a misleading myth on appropriate arbitration functions.

Enhancing Cup-Stacking Method for Collective Communication

“…The previous paper concentrates on obtaining an ideal form of cup (i.e., slice traffic) by re-shaping, however, it does not touch internal functions of routers. This paper firstly thinks of an arbitration method of packets, since literature [17] shows that a different arbitration method conducts the network to a different behavior that results in different performance scores.…”