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Govindan Ravindran and Michael Stumm,
"Prioritized multiprocessor networks: design and performance",
In Proceedings 6th International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS'98), Montreal, QC, Canada, IEEE Computer Society, Washington, DC, USA, July, 1998, pp. 153–160.

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Abstract:

This paper proposes and evaluates prioritized direct shared-memory multiprocessor networks. We use three components to implement prioritized networks, namely, priority-based link arbitration, priority inheritance, and dynamic virtual channels. The two major results from our study are: (i) adding priorities to direct shared-memory multiprocessor networks can lead to reduced average transaction latencies and increased system throughput when running traditional parallel applications, and (ii) a prioritized multiprocessor network can be used to reduce the worst-case latencies of time-constrained traffic when it co-exists with best-effort traffic, without penalizing the average performance of best-effort traffic.

Keywords:

Computer architecture, prioritized networks, shared memory multiprocessor, virtual channels, link arbitration

Reference Info:

DOI: 10.1109/MASCOT.1998.693689
ACMid: 823649
ISBN: 0-8186-8566-2

BibTeX:

@inproceedings(Ravindran-MASCOT98,
    author = {Govindan Ravindran and Michael Stumm},
    title = {Prioritized multiprocessor networks: design and performance},
    booktitle = {Proceedings 6th International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (\textbf{MASCOTS'98})},
    location = {Montreal, QC, Canada},
    organization = {IEEE Computer Society},
    address = {Washington, DC, USA},
    month = {July},
    year = {1998},
    pages = {153-160},
    doi = {10.1109/MASCOT.1998.693689},
    isbn = {0-8186-8566-2},
    keywords = {Computer architecture, prioritized networks, shared memory multiprocessor, virtual channels, link arbitration}
)