A Backup Strategy
•If the
network switch is too slow then …
–Do not
combine at every stage … so that some stages can be fast
–Use two networks, one fast and one that does combining -- it
can handle the sharing requests
–Combine
only like requests, e.g. loads/loads
–Limit
combining at a node to two requests
–As it
happened
•Only
like requests have ever been implemented in switch
•IBM
used the two network solution in the RP3