Efficient Collective Communications in Dual-Cube

  • Authors:
  • Yamin Li;Shietung Peng;Wanming Chu

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Hosei University, Tokyo 184-8584 Japan yamin@k.hosei.ac.jp;Department of Computer Science, Hosei University, Tokyo 184-8584 Japan speng@k.hosei.ac.jp;Department of Computer Hardware, University of Aizu, Aizu-Wakamatsu 965-8580 Japan w-chu@u-aizu.ac.jp

  • Venue:
  • The Journal of Supercomputing
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

The hypercube, or n-cube, has been widely used as the interconnection network in parallel computers. However, the major drawback of the hypercube is the increase in the number of communication links for each node with the increase in the total number of nodes in the system. This paper introduces a new interconnection network, namely dual-cube, for large-scale parallel computers and describes the algorithms for efficient collective communications in dual-cube. The dual-cube network mitigates the problem of increasing number of links in the large-scale hypercube network while retains hypercube’s topological properties. Design of efficient routing algorithms for collective communications is the key issue for any interconnection network. In this paper, we show that the collective communications can be done in dual-cube with almost the same communication times as in hypercube.