Impact of virtual channels and adaptive routing on application performance

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 223-237

  Vaidya, Aniruddha S ^a,b   Sivasubramaniam, Anand ^a,c   Das, Chita R ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive routing; Architectural simulation; Interconnection network; Mesh network; Performance evaluation; Virtual channels

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE ROUTING; ARCHITECTURAL SIMULATION; INTERCONNECTION NETWORK; MESH NETWORK; VIRTUAL CHANNELS;

CHANNEL CAPACITY; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); MULTIPROCESSING SYSTEMS; PERFORMANCE;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 0035248113     PISSN: 10459219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/71.910875     Document Type: Article

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