TY - GEN
T1 - A hypercube-based optical interconnection network
T2 - 1st International Workshop on Massively Parallel Processing Using Optical Interconnections, MPPOI 1994
AU - Louri, Ahmed
AU - Sung, Hongki
N1 - Funding Information:
The quest for Teraflops (lo1,f loating point operations per second) supercomputers fueled by the launching of the High Performance Computing and Communication Program is putting major emphasis on exploiting massive parallelism with greater than one thousand processing elements (PES) networked to form massively parallel computers(MPCs)[l, 21. Several companies and universities have announced MPC projects. An important issue in the design of MPCs is scalability. The term scalability has several meanings. In the light of algorithms] a scalable computer should be able to perform well as the problem size 'This research was supported b an NSF grant No. MIP 9310082 and a grant from UkVest.
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© 1994 IEEE.
PY - 1994
Y1 - 1994
N2 - An important issue in the design of interconnection networks for massively parallel computers is scalability. Size-scalability refers to the property that the number of nodes in the network can be increased with negligible effect on the existing configuration and generation-scalability implies that the communication capabilities of a network should be large enough to support the evolution of processing elements through generations. The lack of size-scalability has limited the use of certain types of interconnection networks (e.g., hypercube) in the area of massively parallel computing. This paper presents a new optical interconnection network, called an Optical Multi-Mesh Hypercube (OMMH), which is both size- and generation-scalable while combining positive features of both the hypercube (small diameter, high connectivity, symmetry, simple routing, and fault tolerance) and the mesh (constant node degree and scalability) networks. Also presented is a three-dimensional optical implementation methodology of the OMMH network.
AB - An important issue in the design of interconnection networks for massively parallel computers is scalability. Size-scalability refers to the property that the number of nodes in the network can be increased with negligible effect on the existing configuration and generation-scalability implies that the communication capabilities of a network should be large enough to support the evolution of processing elements through generations. The lack of size-scalability has limited the use of certain types of interconnection networks (e.g., hypercube) in the area of massively parallel computing. This paper presents a new optical interconnection network, called an Optical Multi-Mesh Hypercube (OMMH), which is both size- and generation-scalable while combining positive features of both the hypercube (small diameter, high connectivity, symmetry, simple routing, and fault tolerance) and the mesh (constant node degree and scalability) networks. Also presented is a three-dimensional optical implementation methodology of the OMMH network.
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U2 - 10.1109/MPPOI.1994.336636
DO - 10.1109/MPPOI.1994.336636
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:0002946856
T3 - Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Massively Parallel Processing Using Optical Interconnections, MPPOI 1994
SP - 81
EP - 93
BT - Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Massively Parallel Processing Using Optical Interconnections, MPPOI 1994
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Y2 - 26 April 1994 through 27 April 1994
ER -