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    One of the greatest challenges faced by designers of digital systems is optimizing the communication and interconnection between system components. Interconnection networks offer an attractive and economical solution to this communication crisis and are fast becoming pervasive in digital systems. Current trends suggest that this communication bottleneck will be even more problematic when designing future generations of machines. Consequently, the anatomy of an interconnection network router and science of interconnection network design will only grow in importance in the coming years.This book offers a detailed and comprehensive presentation of the basic principles of interconnection network design, clearly illustrating them with numerous examples, chapter exercises, and case studies. It incorporates hardware-level descriptions of concepts, allowing a designer to see all the steps of the process from abstract design to concrete implementation.

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    Table of Contents:


    Chapter 1 Introduction to Interconnection Networks
    1.1 Three Questions About Interconnection Networks
    1.2 Uses of Interconnection Networks
    1.3 Network Basics
    1.4 History
    1.5 Organization of this Book

    Chapter 2 A Simple Interconnection Network
    2.1 Network Specifications and Constraints
    2.2 Topology
    2.3 Routing
    2.4 Flow Control
    2.5 Router Design
    2.6 Performance Analysis
    2.7 Exercises

    Chapter 3 Topology Basics
    3.1 Nomenclature
    3.2 Traffic Patterns
    3.3 Performance
    3.4 Packaging Cost
    3.5 Case Study: The SGI Origin 2000
    3.6 Bibliographic Notes
    3.7 Exercises

    Chapter 4 Butterfly Networks
    4.1 The Structure of Butterfly Networks
    4.2 Isomorphic Butterflies
    4.3 Performance and Packaging Cost
    4.4 Path Diversity and Extra Stages
    4.5 Case Study: The BBN Butterfly
    4.6 Bibliographic Notes
    4.7 Exercises

    Chapter 5 Torus Networks
    5.1 The Structure of Torus Networks
    5.2 Performance
    5.3 Building Mesh and Torus Networks
    5.4 Express Cubes
    5.5 Case Study: The MIT J-Machine
    5.6 Bibliographic Notes
    5.7 Exercises
    Chapter 6 Non-Blocking Networks
    6.1 Non-Blocking vs. Non-Interfering Networks
    6.2 Crossbar Networks
    6.3 Clos Networks
    6.4 Benes Networks
    6.5 Sorting Networks
    6.6 Case Study: The Velio VC2002 (Zeus) Grooming Switch
    6.7 Bibliographic Notes
    6.8 Exercises

    Chapter 7 Slicing and Dicing
    7.1 Concentrators and Distributors
    7.2 Slicing and Dicing
    7.3 Slicing Multistage Networks
    7.4 Case Study: Bit Slicing in the Tiny Tera
    7.5 Bibliographic Notes
    7.6 Exercises

    Chapter 8 Routing Basics
    8.1 A Routing Example
    8.2 Taxonomy of Routing Algorithms
    8.3 The Routing Relation
    8.4 Deterministic Routing
    8.5 Case Study: Dimension-Order Routing in the Cray T3D
    8.6 Bibliographic Notes
    8.7 Exercises

    Chapter 9 Oblivious Routing
    9.1 Valiant's Randomized Routing Algorithm
    9.2 Minimal Oblivious Routing
    9.3 Load-Balanced Oblivious Routing
    9.4 Analysis of Oblivious Routing
    9.5 Case Study: Oblivious Routing in the
    Avici Terabit Switch Router(TSR)
    9.6 Bibliographic Notes
    9.7 Exercises

    Chapter 10 Adaptive Routing
    10.1 Adaptive Routing Basics
    10.2 Minimal Adaptive Routing
    10.3 Fully Adaptive Routing
    10.4 Load-Balanced Adaptive Routing
    10.5 Search-Based Routing
    10.6 Case Study: Adaptive Routing in the
    Thinking Machines CM-5
    10.7 Bibliographic Notes
    10.8 Exercises

    Chapter 11 Routing Mechanics
    11.1 Table-Based Routing
    11.2 Algorithmic Routing
    11.3 Case Study: Oblivious Source Routing in the
    IBM Vulcan Network
    11.4 Bibliographic Notes
    11.5 Exercises

    Chapter 12 Flow Control Basics
    12.1 Resources and Allocation Units
    12.2 Bufferless Flow Control
    12.3 Circuit Switching
    12.4 Bibliographic Notes
    12.5 Exercises

    Chapter 13 Buffered Flow Control
    13.1 Packet-Buffer Flow Control
    13.2 Flit-Buffer Flow Control
    13.3 Buffer Management and Backpressure
    13.4 Flit-Reservation Flow Control
    13.5 Bibliographic Notes
    13.6 Exercises

    Chapter 14 Deadlock and Livelock
    14.1 Deadlock
    14.2 Deadlock Avoidance
    14.3 Adaptive Routing
    14.4 Deadlock Recovery
    14.5 Livelock
    14.6 Case Study: Deadlock Avoidance in the Cray T3E
    14.7 Bibliographic Notes
    14.8 Exercises

    Chapter 15 Quality of Service
    15.1 Service Classes and Service Contracts
    15.2 Burstiness and Network Delays
    15.3 Implementation of Guaranteed Services
    15.4 Implementation of Best-Effort Services
    15.5 Separation of Resources
    15.6 Case Study: ATM Service Classes
    15.7 Case Study: Virtual Networks in the Avici TSR
    15.8 Bibliographic Notes
    15.9 Exercises

    Chapter 16 Router Architecture
    16.1 Basic Router Architecture
    16.2 Stalls
    16.3 Closing the Loop with Credits
    16.4 Reallocating a Channel
    16.5 Speculation and Lookahead
    16.6 Flit and Credit Encoding
    16.7 Case Study: The Alpha 21364 Router
    16.8 Bibliographic Notes
    16.9 Exercises

    Chapter 17 Router Datapath Components
    17.1 Input Buffer Organization
    17.2 Switches
    17.3 Output Organization
    17.4 Case Study: The Datapath of the IBM Colony
    Router
    17.5 Bibliographic Notes
    17.6 Exercises

    Chapter 18 Arbitration
    18.1 Arbitration Timing
    18.2 Fairness
    18.3 Fixed Priority Arbiter
    18.4 Variable Priority Iterative Arbiters
    18.5 Matrix Arbiter
    18.6 Queuing Arbiter
    18.7 Exercises

    Chapter 19 Allocation
    19.1 Representations
    19.2 Exact Algorithms
    19.3 Separable Allocators
    19.4 Wavefront Allocator
    19.5 Incremental vs. Batch Allocation
    19.6 Multistage Allocation
    19.7 Performance of Allocators
    19.8 Case Study: The Tiny Tera Allocator
    19.9 Bibliographic Notes
    19.10 Exercises

    Chapter 20 Network Interfaces
    20.1 Processor-Network Interface
    20.2 Shared-Memory Interface
    20.3 Line-Fabric Interface
    20.4 Case Study: The MIT M-Machine Network Interface
    20.5 Bibliographic Notes
    20.6 Exercises

    Chapter 21 Error Control 411
    21.1 Know Thy Enemy: Failure Modes and Fault Models
    21.2 The Error Control Process: Detection, Containment,
    and Recovery
    21.3 Link Level Error Control
    21.4 Router Error Control
    21.5 Network-Level Error Control
    21.6 End-to-end Error Control
    21.7 Bibliographic Notes
    21.8 Exercises

    Chapter 22 Buses
    22.1 Bus Basics
    22.2 Bus Arbitration
    22.3 High Performance Bus Protocol
    22.4 From Buses to Networks
    22.5 Case Study: The PCI Bus
    22.6 Bibliographic Notes
    22.7 Exercises

    Chapter 23 Performance Analysis
    23.1 Measures of Interconnection Network Performance
    23.2 Analysis
    23.3 Validation
    23.4 Case Study: Efficiency and Loss in the
    BBN Monarch Network
    23.5 Bibliographic Notes
    23.6 Exercises

    Chapter 24 Simulation
    24.1 Levels of Detail
    24.2 Network Workloads
    24.3 Simulation Measurements
    24.4 Simulator Design
    24.5 Bibliographic Notes
    24.6 Exercises

    Chapter 25 Simulation Examples 495
    25.1 Routing
    25.2 Flow Control Performance
    25.3 Fault Tolerance

    Appendix A Nomenclature
    Appendix B Glossary
    Appendix C Network Simulator

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