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Paper   IPM / Computer Science / 10896
School of Computer Science
  Title:   Software-based fault-tolerant routing algorithm in multidimensional networks
  Author(s): 
1.  F. Safaei
2.  M. Rezazad
3.  A. Khonsari
4.  M. Fathy
5.  M. Ould-Khaoua
6.  N. Alzeidi
  Status:   In Proceedings
  Proceeding: IPDPS
  Year:  2006
  Pages:   387
  Publisher(s):   IEEE
  Supported by:  IPM
  Abstract:
Massively parallel computing systems are being built with hundreds or thousands of components such as nodes, links, memories, and connectors. The failure of a component in such systems will not only reduce the computational power but also alter the networks topology. The software-based fault-tolerant routing algorithm is a popular routing to achieve fault-tolerance capability in networks. This algorithm is initially proposed only for two dimensional networks (Suh et al., 2000). Since, higher dimensional networks have been widely employed in many contemporary massively parallel systems; this paper proposes an approach to extend this routing scheme to these indispensable higher dimensional networks. Deadlock and livelock freedom and the performance of presented algorithm, have been investigated for networks with different dimensionality and various fault regions. Furthermore, performance results have been presented through simulation experiments.

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