Evaluation of an Alternative for Increasing Switch Radix

  • Authors:
  • Juan A. Villar;Francisco J. Andujar;Jose L. Sánchez;Francisco J. Alfaro;Jose Duato

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • NCA '11 Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE 10th International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

In large switch-based interconnection networks, increasing the switch radix results in a decrease in the total number of network components. In this paper we evaluate an interesting strategy for building high-radix switches going beyond the integration scale bounds. This approach is independent of the evolution of single-chip switches and will remain valid as integration scale keeps evolving. Simulation results show that with a correct internal switch design, this kind of switches achieves almost the same performance as single-chip switches with the same radix, which would be unfeasible with current integration scale.