Bidirectional MIN에서 효율적인 라우팅을 지원하기 위한 계층적 버퍼링 기법

Hierarchical buffering scheme for supporting effective routing scheme in bidirectional MIN

Many recent supercomputers employ a kind of switch-based multistage interconnection network architectrues (MINs) for constructing scalabel parallel compters. This paper proposed a new routing method, hybrid wormhole and virtual-cut through routing (HWCR) for the prevention of rapid performance degradation comming from a conflict in links usage at hot traffic situation. This HWCR through (VCT) for the fast removing temporal stagger, result in seamless flow of packet stream. When the blocked link is removed, wormhole routing is resumed. The HWCR method adopted a hierachical buffer scheme for improving the network performance and reducing the cost in BMINs. We could get optimum buffer size and communicatin latency through the computer simulation based on proposed HWCR, and the results were compared to those using wormhole and VCT.