Infiniband routing table optimizations for scientific applications

Parallel Processing Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 589-608

  Kerbyson, Darren J ^a   Lang, Mike ^a   Johnson, Gregory ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fat tree networks; Infiniband; Large scale processing; Scientific applications; Static routing

Indexed keywords

APPLICATIONS; COMMUNICATION; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; QUEUEING NETWORKS; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

FAT-TREE NETWORKS; INFINIBAND; LARGE-SCALE PROCESSING; SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS; STATIC ROUTING;

COMPUTER NETWORKS;

EID: 57649179452     PISSN: 01296264     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0129626408003582     Document Type: Conference Paper

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