Title
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute: A Multiprocessor Server with a New Highly Pipelined Bus
Abstract
In this paper, we explore the design issues of a shared bus with pipelined protocol, so called HiPi+Bus, which is implemented for a multiprocessor server. The characteristics and design parameters for the HiPi+Bus are described. In the viewpoint of a pipelined bus, a block transfer is no good because of involving complex and unbalanced pipeline. However, it is requested by a local cache memory of which line size tends to be increased. To get the best performance and compensate unbalanced data transfer characteristic caused by block transfer, a responder queue for the bus interface is also proposed. According to the simulation results, it is explored that the HiPi+Bus, with help of the responder queue, can provide balanced service for more than 16 processors, which is important in running commercial applications. The HiPi+Bus is implemented for the TICOM III, a successor of the TICOM II which is the main server of the national administrative information network in Korea.
Year
Venue
Keywords
1996
IPPS
ticom iii,pipelined bus,design parameter,shared bus,block transfer,main server,multiprocessor server,design issue,bus interface,ticom ii,responder queue,telecommunications research institute,new highly pipelined bus
Field
DocType
ISBN
Bus network,CPU cache,Computer science,Computer network,Address bus,Multiprocessing,Local bus,Back-side bus,System bus,Operating system,Control bus
Conference
0-8186-7255-2
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.42
0
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Woojong Hahn1172.98
Ando Ki2101.69
Kee-Wook Rim315424.20
Soo-Won Kim411629.86