Interconnection Networks: An Engineering Approach
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...Though network interconnections have been studied for decades [11, 18], to the best of our knowledge, none of the previous structures meets the MDC requirements and the physical constraint that servers can only have a small number of network ports....
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...Due to the link-layer .ow control, this will eventu- Figure 12: Aggregate TCP Throughput under DCell and Tree. ally cause queue to build up at each sender s bu.er....
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...There are also switch-based interconnects like Autonet, Myrinet, and Server-Net [6] that support networks with arbitrary topologies....
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...Fat Tree [6] overcomes the bottleneck degree problem by introducing more bandwidth into the switches near the root....
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...In a Tree structure, servers are attached as leaves, and switches are used to build the hierarchy....
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...Fat Tree [6] overcomes the N2 bottleneck degree problem by introducing more bandwidth into the switches near the root....
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...For SoCs consisting of tens or hundreds of IP blocks, bus-based interconnect architectures will lead to serious bottleneck problems as all attached devices must share the bandwidth of the bus [9]....
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