A lower bound technique for communication on BSP with application to the FFT

  • Authors:
  • Gianfranco Bilardi;Michele Scquizzato;Francesco Silvestri

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova, Italy;Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova, Italy;Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova, Italy

  • Venue:
  • Euro-Par'12 Proceedings of the 18th international conference on Parallel Processing
  • Year:
  • 2012

Quantified Score

Hi-index 0.00

Visualization

Abstract

Communication complexity is defined, within the Bulk Synchronous Parallel (BSP) model of computation, as the sum of the degrees of all the supersteps. A lower bound to the communication complexity is derived for a given class of DAG computations in terms of the switching potential of a DAG, that is, the number of permutations that the DAG can realize when viewed as a switching network. The proposed technique yields a novel and tight lower bound for the FFT graph.