Scalable Machine Designs

Table of Contents

Scalable Machine Designs

Scalability

Scaling Parallel Computers

Bandwidth Issues

Bandwidth Continued

Bisection Bandwidth

Bandwidth Across The Machine

Latency Issues

Increment Issues

Message Passing

Interprocessor Communication

Message Size

Details ... copying

Details ... Asynchronous Interface

Higher Level Protocols

Higher Level Protocols, Continued

Higher Level Protocols, Continued

Active Messages

Summary On Message Passing

Ironman: Compiler Comm Interface

HW Customize: Binding Ironman Calls

Ironman Summary ...

Multiple Networks

nCUBE/2: An Early MP Design

Schematic For nCUBE/2 Node

nCUBE Physical Implementation

Connection Machine, CM-5

CM-5 Node Organization

Intel Paragon -- A 2D Mesh

Cray T3D -- Shared Address Space

Generic Shared Physical Address Space

Cray T3D Shmem

T3E

Clusters -- Network of Workstations

Standard NOW

Performance

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CSE 596: Parallel Computation

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