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Dragonfly interconnect is a crucial network technology for supercomputers. To support exascale systems, network resources are shared such that links and routers are not dedicated to any node pair. While link utilization is increased,…
Existing high-performance computing (HPC) interconnection architectures are based on high-radix switches, which limits the injection/local performance and introduces latency/energy/cost overhead. The new wafer-scale packaging and high-speed…
To interconnect their growing number of servers, current supercomputers and data centers are starting to adopt low-diameter networks, such as HyperX, Dragonfly and Dragonfly+. These emergent topologies require balancing the load over their…
HyperSurfaces (HSFs) consist of structurally reconfigurable metasurfaces whose electromagnetic properties can be changed via a software interface, using an embedded miniaturized network of controllers. With the HSF controllers,…
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. This low latency is due to the nearly distance…
Novel low-diameter network topologies such as Slim Fly (SF) offer significant cost and power advantages over the established Fat Tree, Clos, or Dragonfly. To spearhead the adoption of low-diameter networks, we design, implement, deploy, and…
The increase in design cost and complexity have motivated designers to adopt modular design of System on Chip (SoC) by integrating independently designed small chiplets. However, it introduces new challenges for correctness validation,…
The state-of-the-art topologies of datacenter networks are fixed, based on electrical switching technology, and by now, we understand their throughput and cost well. For the past years, researchers have been developing novel optical…
High-radix, low-diameter networks like HyperX and Dragonfly use a Full-mesh core, and rely on multiple virtual channels (VCs) to avoid packet deadlocks in adaptive routing. However, VCs introduce significant overhead in the switch in terms…
Dynamic network reconfiguration is described as the process of replacing one routing function with another while the network keeps running. The main challenge is avoiding deadlock anomalies while keeping limitations on message injection and…
The paper presents a topology-agnostic greedy protocol for network-on-chip routing. The proposed routing algorithm can tolerate any number of permanent faults, and is proven to be deadlock-free. We introduce a specialized variant of the…
This paper describes the Swapped Dragonfly. It is a two-parameter family of diameter three interconnection networks, D3(K,M), which are linearly scalable in M. Although D3(K,M) is a Dragonfly, it differs from standard Dragonflies in many…
We consider a distributed Software Defined Networking (SDN) architecture adopting a cluster of multiple controllers to improve network performance and reliability. Besides the Openflow control traffic exchanged between controllers and…
JSC NICEVT has developed the Angara high-speed interconnect with 4D torus topology. The Angara interconnect router implements deterministic routing based on the bubble flow control, a direction order routing (DOR) and direction bits rules.…
The Swapped Dragonfly with M routers per group and K global ports per router is denoted D3(K;M) [1]. It has n=KMM routers and is a partially populated Dragonfly. A Swapped Dragonfly with K and M restricted is studied in this paper. There…
High-radix interconnects such as Dragonfly and its variants rely on adaptive routing to balance network traffic for optimum performance. Ideally, adaptive routing attempts to forward packets between minimal and non-minimal paths with the…
Much like classical supercomputers, scaling up quantum computers requires an optical interconnect. However, signal attenuation leads to irreversible qubit loss, making quantum interconnect design guidelines and metrics different from…
Online collision-free trajectory generation within a shared workspace is fundamental for most multi-robot applications. However, many widely-used methods based on model predictive control (MPC) lack theoretical guarantees on the feasibility…
Systems of networked mobile robots, such as unmanned aerial or ground vehicles, will play important roles in future military and commercial applications. The communications for such systems will typically be over wireless links and may…
By interconnecting smaller chiplets through an interposer, 2.5D integration offers a cost-effective and high-yield solution to implement large-scale modular systems. Nevertheless, the underlying network is prone to deadlock, despite…