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P. Geoffray, T. Hoefler:

 Adaptive Routing Strategies for Modern High Performance Networks

(. Vol , Nr. , In 16th Annual IEEE Symposium on High Performance Interconnects, HOTI'08, presented in Stanford, CA, USA, pages 165-172, IEEE Computer Society, ISSN: , ISBN: 978-0-7695-3380-3, Aug. 2008)

Abstract

Today's scalable high-performance applications heavily depend on the bandwidth characteristics of their communication patterns. Contemporary multi-stage interconnection networks suffer from network contention which might decrease application performance. Our experiments show that the effective bisection bandwidth of a non-blocking 512-node Clos network is as low as 38% if the network is routed statically. In this paper, we propose and analyze different adaptive routing schemes for those networks. We chose Myrinet/MX to implement our proposed routing schemes. Our best adaptive routing scheme is able to in- crease the effective bisection bandwidth to 77% for 512 nodes and 100% for smaller node counts. Thus, we show that our proposed adaptive routing schemes are able to improve network throughput significantly.

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@inproceedings{geoffray-adaptive-routing,
  author={P. Geoffray and Torsten Hoefler},
  title={{Adaptive Routing Strategies for Modern High Performance Networks}},
  journal={},
  institution={},
  year={2008},
  month={08},
  pages={165-172},
  volume={},
  number={},
  booktitle={16th Annual IEEE Symposium on High Performance Interconnects, HOTI'08},
  location={Stanford, CA, USA},
  publisher={IEEE Computer Society},
  issn={},
  isbn={978-0-7695-3380-3},
}