Communication issues in parallel systems with optical interconnections

Pascal Berthome; A. Ferreira

doi:10.1117/12.201276

17 February 1995 Communication issues in parallel systems with optical interconnections

Pascal Berthome, A. Ferreira

Proceedings Volume 2450, Broadband Networks: Strategies and Technologies; (1995) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.201276
Event: Advanced Networks and Services, 1995, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Abstract

In classical massively parallel computers, the complexity of the interconnection networks is much higher than the complexity of the processing elements themselves. Optical interconnections may provide a way to reconsider very large parallel architectures. We compare some optically interconnected parallel multicomputer models with regard to their communication capabilities. We first establish a distinction of such systems, based on the independence of the communication elements embedded in the processors (transmitters and receivers). Then, motivated by the fact that in multicomputers some communication operations have to be very efficiently performed, we study two fundamental communication problems, namely, one-to-all and all-to-all, under the hypothesis of bounded fanout. Our results take also into account a bounded number of available wavelengths.

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Pascal Berthome and A. Ferreira "Communication issues in parallel systems with optical interconnections", Proc. SPIE 2450, Broadband Networks: Strategies and Technologies, (17 February 1995); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.201276

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