Performance Benefits of Optical Circuit Switches for Large-Scale Dragonfly Networks
Cyriel Minkenberg, Germán Rodríguez, Bogdan Prisacari, Laurent Schares, Philip Heidelberger, Dong Chen, Craig B. Stunkel · Optical Fiber Communication Conference · 2016
We propose Optical Circuit Switching for dynamically creating reconfigurable partitions in large-scale systems with Dragonfly networks. Up to 2x execution-time improvement is demonstrated for global traffic patterns in a >13,000-node system using a production-grade network simulator.