Title
ATOLL: A High-Performance Communication Device for Massively Parallel Systems
Abstract
Fast and efficient communication is one of the major design goals not only for parallel systems but also for clusters of workstations. The proposed model of the high performance communication device ATOLL 1 features very low latency for the start of communication operations and reduces the software overhead for communication specific functions. To close the gap between off-the-shelf microprocessors and the communication system a highly sophisticated processor interface implements atomic start of communication, MMU support, and a flexible event scheduling scheme. The interconnectivity of ATOLL provided by four independent network ports combined with cut-through routing allows the configuration of a large variety of network topologies. A software transparent error correction mechanism significantly reduces the required protocol overhead. The presented simulation results promise high performance and low-latency communication.
Year
DOI
Venue
1997
10.1109/APDC.1997.574037
APDC
Keywords
Field
DocType
independent network port,high-performance communication device,low-latency communication,communication system,network topology,parallel systems,high performance,efficient communication,atomic start,communication specific function,communication operation,high performance communication device,massively parallel computing
Event scheduling,Massively parallel,Computer science,Communications system,Workstation,Network topology,Software,Protocol overhead,Latency (engineering),Embedded system,Distributed computing
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
0-8186-7876-3
1
0.40
References 
Authors
0
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ulrich Bruening1193.68
Lambert Schaelicke227920.23