Analytical modelling of networks in multicomputer systems under bursty and batch arrival traffic

  • Authors:
  • Yulei Wu;Geyong Min;Mohamed Ould-Khaoua;Hao Yin;Lan Wang

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computing, School of Informatics, University of Bradford, Bradford, UK BD7 1DP;Department of Computing, School of Informatics, University of Bradford, Bradford, UK BD7 1DP;Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK G12 8RZ;Department of Computer Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China 100084;Department of Computing, School of Informatics, University of Bradford, Bradford, UK BD7 1DP

  • Venue:
  • The Journal of Supercomputing
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

The hypercube and torus are two important message-passing network architectures of high-performance multicomputers. Analytical models of multicomputer networks under the non-bursty Poisson traffic have been widely reported. Motivated by the convincing evidence of bursty and batch arrival nature of traffic generated by many real-world parallel applications in high-performance computing environments, we develop a new and concise analytical model in this paper for hypercube and torus networks in the presence of batch message arrivals modelled by the compound Poisson process with geometrically distributed batch sizes. The average degree of virtual channel multiplexing is derived by employing a Markov chain which can capture the batch arrival nature. An attractive advantage of the model is its constant computation complexity independent of the network size. The accuracy of the analytical performance results is validated against those obtained from simulation experiments of an actual system.