A flit level simulator for wormhole routing

  • Authors:
  • Denvil Smith

  • Affiliations:
  • Mississippi College

  • Venue:
  • ACM-SE 38 Proceedings of the 38th annual on Southeast regional conference
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

Wormhole routing, the latest switching technique to be utilized by massively parallel computers, enjoys the distinct advantage of a low latency when compared to other switching techniques. More simulation tools would prove beneficial to the communication research community to aid in evaluating wormhole routed algorithms. These tools should reveal the optimum use of the network resources, which will allow for new algorithms to be compared against previously proven algorithms. Some of these resources include topology, buffers, virtual channels, and message size. The contribution of this research is a simulator that simulates network activity for three selected wormhole routed algorithms. The simulator provides an optimal network setting for each of the three simulated algorithms. The simulator will allow for settings other than reported in the literature. Thus allowing for new results for each algorithm to be achieved. Experimental results with various settings will be shown, to coincide with previous observations that will substantiate the integrity of the simulator. These results will then be used to deduce an optimal setting for each algorithm. These settings differ from previous reports in the literature for each algorithm.