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Communication Performance of Mesh- and Ring-Based NoCs

DVOŘÁK, V. Communication Performance of Mesh- and Ring-Based NoCs. Proceedings of the 7th Int. Conference on Networking. New York: IEEE Computer Society, 2008. p. 156-161. ISBN: 978-0-7695-3106-9.
Czech title
Komunikační výkonnost sítí na čipu založených na mřížce a kružnicích
Type
conference paper
Language
English
Authors
Dvořák Václav, prof. Ing., DrSc.
Keywords

Collective communications, message combining, lower bounds on time complexity, communication overhead, Tera-scale computing platform

Abstract

As multi-core systems begin to appear, their possible applications, parallel performance and on-chip interconnection networks have to be clarified, analyzed and optimized. The paper investigates an impact of collective communication (CC) overhead   that may be critical for performance of parallel applications. Two potential topologies of networks on chip (NoC) are investigated, a ring-based network and 2D-mesh, due to their easy manufacturability on a chip. The wormhole switching, full duplex links and 1-port non-combining as well as combining nodes are considered. The lower bounds on the number of communication steps and upper bounds of CC times based on real CC algorithms are given. They can be evaluated for any given start-up time and link bandwidth. This enables performance prediction of applications with CCs among computing nodes.

Published
2008
Pages
156–161
Proceedings
Proceedings of the 7th Int. Conference on Networking
ISBN
978-0-7695-3106-9
Publisher
IEEE Computer Society
Place
New York
BibTeX 
@inproceedings{BUT27603,
  author="Václav {Dvořák}",
  title="Communication Performance of Mesh- and Ring-Based NoCs",
  booktitle="Proceedings of the 7th Int. Conference on Networking",
  year="2008",
  pages="156--161",
  publisher="IEEE Computer Society",
  address="New York",
  isbn="978-0-7695-3106-9",
  url="https://www.fit.vut.cz/research/publication/8585/"
}
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