Affordable Scalability Using Multi-Cubes [chapter]

Håkon Bugge, Knut Omang
1999 Lecture Notes in Computer Science  
We analyze the scalability of r-ary f-cube topologies built from state-of-the-art SCI technology. The actual implementation architecture is studied, and this work serves as a guide to select the right topology for a given system size. We discuss how the interconnect scales with respect to the amount of traffic each node can generate, which is limited to the bandwidth of a single PCI bus. We show how the SCI ringlets and bus used for packet switching dimensions limits scalability of the
more » ... ect, and how the two relates to each other. We argue that these topologies scales to 512 nodes.
doi:10.1007/10704208_11 fatcat:bxwhuyspurcivobv6xqccejj7e