Using multirail networks in high-performance clusters

Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience

Volumn 15, Issue 7-8, 2003, Pages 625-651

  Coll, Salvador ^a   Frachtenberg, Eitan ^a   Petrini, Fabrizio ^a   Hoisie, Adolfy ^a   Gurvits, Leonid ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Communication libraries; Communication protocols; High performance interconnection networks; Parallel architectures; Performance evaluation; Routing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BANDWIDTH; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

COMMUNICATION PROTOCOLS;

INTERCONNECTION NETWORKS;

EID: 0037648834     PISSN: 15320626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpe.725     Document Type: Conference Paper

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