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Optical interconnection networks have the potential of trans- mitting data much faster than the speed at which this data can be gen- erated at the transmitting nodes or consumed at the receiving nodes. Even when the communication protocols are simplified and most of the protocol signaling at the end nodes is done in hardware, the data cannot be processed at the end nodes at a rate faster than the rate of memory operations. We study the effect of multiplexing the network on both its throughput and latency for different ratios of memory to link transmis- sion speeds. We found that multiplexing reduces the impact of the gap between data transmission and data generation/consumption speeds.
This work was supported in part by NSF awards MIP-9633729 and CCR-9157371.
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Yuan, X., Gupta, R., Melhem, R. (1998). Does Time-Division Multiplexing Close the Gap Between Memory and Optical Communication Speeds?. In: Yalamanchili, S., Duato, J. (eds) Parallel Computer Routing and Communication. PCRCW 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1417. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-69352-1_22
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