High performance datacenter networks : architectures, algorithms, and opportunities /
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| Author / Creator: | Abts, Dennis. |
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| Imprint: | San Rafael, Calif. (1537 Fourth Street, San Rafael, CA 94901 USA) : Morgan & Claypool, c2011. |
| Description: | 1 electronic text (ix, 99 p.) : ill., digital file. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Synthesis lectures on computer architecture, 1935-3243 ; # 14 Synthesis digital library of engineering and computer science. Synthesis lectures on computer architecture, # 14. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10510985 |
| Summary: | Datacenter networks provide the communication substrate for large parallel computer systems that form the ecosystem for high performance computing (HPC) systems and modern Internet applications. The design of new datacenter networks is motivated by an array of applications ranging from communication intensive climatology, complex material simulations and molecular dynamics to such Internet applications as Web search, language translation, collaborative Internet applications, streaming video and voice-over-IP. For both Supercomputing and Cloud Computing the network enables distributed applications to communicate and interoperate in an orchestrated and efficient way.This book describes the design and engineering tradeoffs of datacenter networks. It describes interconnection networks from topology and network architecture to routing algorithms, and presents opportunities for taking advantage of the emerging technology trends that are influencing router microarchitecture. With the emergence of "many-core" processor chips, it is evident that we will also need "many-port" routing chips to provide a bandwidth-rich network to avoid the performance limiting effects of Amdahl's Law. We provide an overview of conventional topologies and their routing algorithms and show how technology, signaling rates and cost-effective optics are motivating new network topologies that scale up to millions of hosts. The book also provides detailed case studies of two high performance parallel computer systems and their networks.Table of Contents: Introduction / Background / Topology Basics / High-Radix Topologies / Routing / Scalable Switch Microarchitecture / System Packaging / Case Studies / Closing Remarks |
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| Item Description: | Part of: Synthesis digital library of engineering and computer science. Series from website. |
| Physical Description: | 1 electronic text (ix, 99 p.) : ill., digital file. |
| Format: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 93-98). |
| ISBN: | 9781608454037 9781608454020 |
| ISSN: | 1935-3243 ; |
| Access: | Abstract freely available; full-text restricted to subscribers or individual document purchasers. |