Designing a Crossbar Scheduler for HPC Applications
Cyriel Minkenberg, François Abel, P. Muller, R. Krishnamurthy, Mitch Gusat, Peter Dill, Ilias Iliadis, Ronald P. Luijten, B. R. Hemenway, Richard Grzybowski, Enrico Schiattarella · IEEE Micro · 2006
A crucial part of any high-performance computing (HPC) system is its interconnection network. Corning and IBM are jointly developing a demonstration interconnect based on optical cell swtiching with electronic control. Key innovations in the scheduler architecture directly address the main HPC requirements: low latency, high throughput, efficient multicast suppot, and high reliability.