Blue Gene/L torus interconnection network

IBM Journal of Research and Development

Volumn 49, Issue 2-3, 2005, Pages 265-276

  Adiga, Narasimha R ^a   Blumrich, Matthias A ^b   Chen, Dong ^b   Coteus, Paul ^b   Gara, Alan ^b   Giampapa, Mark E ^b   Heidelberger, Philip ^b   Singh, Sarabjeet ^b   Steinmacher Burow, Burkhard D ^b   Takken, Todd ^b   Tsao, Michael ^b   Vranas, Pavlos ^b  

^a IBM INDIA RESEARCH LAB   (India)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; RELIABILITY; ROUTERS; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

MICROARCHITECTURE; TORUS INTERCONNECTION NETWORK; VIRTUAL CHANNEL ARCHITECTURE;

SUPERCOMPUTERS;

EID: 21044458402     PISSN: 00188646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1147/rd.492.0265     Document Type: Article

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