Results from the MACRAME 1024 Node IEEE1355 Switching Network

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Results from the MACRAME 1024 Node IEEE1355 Switching Network

Presentation

What does IEEE1355 do for you?

What are the interconnect issues?

Bus Versus Switch

IEEE1355 Switch Properties

How to build a big switch: GRID

How to build a big switch: CLOS

What affects performance?

IEEE 1355 Switch Studies

Traffic Generator Board

Tested Networks

1024 Node 2-D Grid

Node Throughput for Grid, Clos and Torus

Scalability of Clos and Grid Networks

Latency for Clos Networks

Latency Distribution

Packet Transmission Overhead

Summary

Email: Brian.Martin@cern.ch

Home Page: http://www.cern.ch/HSI/dshs/

Other information:
Presentation at the EMMSEC'97 conference, November '97, Florence, Italy