Supporting bulk synchronous parallelism with a high-bandwidth optical interconnect

I. Gourlay, P. M. Dew, K. Djemame, J. F. Snowdon, G. Russell

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Abstract

The list of applications requiring high-performance computing resources is constantly growing. The cost of inter-processor communication is critical in determining the performance of massively parallel computing systems for many of these applications. This paper considers the feasibility of a commodity processor-based system which uses a free-space optical interconnect. A novel architecture, based on this technology, is presented. Analytical and simulation results based on an implementation of BSP (Bulk Synchronous Parallelism) are presented, indicating that a significant performance enhancement, over architectures using conventional interconnect technology, is possible. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1247-1270
Number of pages24
JournalConcurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience
Volume16
Issue number13
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Nov 2004

Keywords

  • BSP
  • Optical interconnect
  • Parallel
  • Sorting

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