Tree-Based Multicasting in Wormhole-Routed Irregular Topologies

  • Authors:
  • D. Ma/oni

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • IPPS '98 Proceedings of the 12th. International Parallel Processing Symposium on International Parallel Processing Symposium
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

A deadlock-free tree-based multicast routing algorithm is presented for all direct networks, regardless of interconnection topology. The algorithm delivers a message to any number of destinations using only a single startup phase. In contrast to existing tree-based schemes, this algorithm applies to all interconnection topologies, requires only fixed-sized input buffers that are independent of maximum message length, and uses a simple asynchronous flit replication mechanism. The theoretical basis of the technique used here is sufficiently general to develop other tree-based multicasting algorithms for regular and irregular topologies. Simulation results demonstrate that this tree- based algorithm provides a very promising means of achieving very low latency multicast.