Optical design of a fault tolerant self-routing switch for massively parallel processing networks

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“Optical design of a fault tolerant self-routing switch for massively parallel processing networks” by Mohsen Guizani. Atif M. Memon, and Subbarao Ghanta, in MPPOI '95: Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Massively Parallel Processing Using Optical Interconnections, (Washington, DC, USA), 1995, pp. 246-253.

Abstract

A fault-tolerant high-performance optical 2x2 switch is proposed for massively parallel processing network applications. The switch is designed using all optical components. This allows the exploitation of spatial parallelism. The proposed switch can be used with any multistage interconnection network such as omega, Banyan, shuffle, Benes. For the purpose of this study the baseline network was used as the underlying network. The reasons for choosing the baseline are that it uses 2x2 switches, is not fault-tolerant and is self-routing. Performance/reliability analysis is done and compared with two major fault-tolerant networks. The results show that without redundant switches, better network survivability is achieved. Since the network is assembled using only the 2x2 switches, it can be mass produced.

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BibTeX entry:

@inproceedings{GuizaniMPPOI1995,
   author = {Mohsen Guizani and Atif M. Memon and Subbarao Ghanta},
   title = {Optical design of a fault tolerant self-routing switch for
	massively parallel processing networks},
   booktitle = {MPPOI '95: Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Massively
	Parallel Processing Using Optical Interconnections},
   pages = {246--253},
   publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
   address = {Washington, DC, USA},
   year = {1995},
   isbn = {0-8186-7101-7}
}

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