An optimized hardware architecture and communication protocol for scheduled communication
David P. Shoemaker, Stephen A. Ward · DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) · 1997
Managing communications in parallel processing systems has proven to be one of the most critical problems facing designers.As processor speeds continue to increase, communication latency and bandwidth become more of a bottleneck.Traditional network routers receive messages that are examined and forwarded by a local router.Performance is lost both by the time spent examining a message in order to determine its destination, and by the inability of a processor's router to have a global sense of message traffic.