Improving infiniband routing through multiple virtual networks

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2327 LNCS, Issue , 2002, Pages 49-63

  Flich, J ^a   Lopez P ^a   Sancho, J C ^a   Robles, A ^a   Duato, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CHANNEL UTILIZATION; DE FACTO STANDARD; DEADLOCK FREEDOM; HEAD OF LINE BLOCKING; I/O DEVICE; INFINIBAND; INFINIBAND ARCHITECTURE; INTER PROCESSOR COMMUNICATION; INTERCONNECTION PATTERNS; IRREGULAR TOPOLOGY; LARGER NETWORKS; MINIMAL PATH; NETWORK THROUGHPUT; POINT-TO-POINT LINK; ROUTING PACKETS; ROUTING PERFORMANCE; ROUTING SCHEME; SIMULATION RESULT; SWITCH NETWORK; TRAFFIC BALANCE; VIRTUAL NETWORKS; SWITCH-BASED NETWORKS;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; NETWORK PERFORMANCE; QUEUEING NETWORKS; ROUTING ALGORITHMS; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING; TOPOLOGY; FORESTRY; SWITCHING CIRCUITS;

SWITCHING CIRCUITS; NETWORK ROUTING;

EID: 68749102022     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-47847-7_7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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