The buffer size vs link bandwidth tradeoff in lossless networks

Proceedings - 2014 IEEE 22nd Annual Symposium on High-Performance Interconnects, HOTI 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 33-40

  Shpiner, Alexander ^a   Zahavi, Eitan ^a   Rottenstreich, Ori ^a  

^a NVIDIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Data center network; Lossless network; Switch buffers

Indexed keywords

BUDGET CONTROL; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION NETWORKS; NETWORK PERFORMANCE;

BUFFER SIZES; DATA CENTER NETWORKS; HIGH-BANDWIDTH SWITCHES; LINK BANDWIDTH; LOSSLESS NETWORKS; POWER BUDGETS; RELATIVE IMPACT; SWITCH BUFFERS;

BANDWIDTH;

EID: 84918843062     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HOTI.2014.18     Document Type: Conference Paper

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