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High-Quality Fault Resiliency in Fat Trees

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing 2022-11-24 v1 Networking and Internet Architecture

Abstract

Coupling regular topologies with optimised routing algorithms is key in pushing the performance of interconnection networks of supercomputers.In this paper we present Dmodc, a fast deterministic routing algorithm for Parallel Generalised Fat-Trees (PGFTs) which minimises congestion risk even under massive network degradation caused by equipment failure.Dmodc computes forwarding tables with a closed-form arithmetic formula by relying on a fast preprocessing phase.This allows complete re-routing of networks with tens of thousands of nodes in less than a second.In turn, this greatly helps centralised fabric management react to faults with high-quality routing tables and no impact to running applications in current and future very large-scale HPC clusters.

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@article{arxiv.2211.13101,
  title  = {High-Quality Fault Resiliency in Fat Trees},
  author = {John Gliksberg and Antoine Capra and Alexandre Louvet and Pedro Javier Garcia and Devan Sohier},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.13101},
  year   = {2022}
}

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arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2211.11817