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Communication performance of a modular high-bandwidth multiprocessor system
Hsinchu, Taiwan December 05-December 07
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/ICPADS.2007.444773113th International Conference on Para ...
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null Fong Pong, Broadcom Corp., 2451 Mission College Boulevard, Santa Clara, California 95054, USA
null Nian-Feng Tzeng, Center for Advanced Computer Studies, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, LA 70504-4330, USA
null Koray Oner, Broadcom Corp., 2451 Mission College Boulevard, Santa Clara, California 95054, USA
null Chun Ning, Broadcom Corp., 2451 Mission College Boulevard, Santa Clara, California 95054, USA
null Kwong-Tak Chui, Broadcom Corp., 2451 Mission College Boulevard, Santa Clara, California 95054, USA
null Manoj Ekbote, Broadcom Corp., 2451 Mission College Boulevard, Santa Clara, California 95054, USA
null Yanping Lu, Broadcom Corp., 2451 Mission College Boulevard, Santa Clara, California 95054, USA
This article deals with communication performance of a multiprocessor system implemented using award-wining BCM 1480 multi-core chips. Our system uses high-performance HyperTransport links to interconnect constituent chips, realizing cache-coherent non-uniform memory access. It takes advantage of hardware support from the BCM 1480 chip to attain very impressive communication performance among constituent BCM 1480 chips. This is achieved via an extension to global memory, so that small messages can be pushed quickly across chips in less than one us by the CPU cores through DMA to achieve zero-copy message buffering. It eliminates all overhead associated with the kernel and protocol processing for the utmost interconnect bandwidth in data transfers.
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null Fong Pong, null Nian-Feng Tzeng, null Koray Oner, null Chun Ning, null Kwong-Tak Chui, null Manoj Ekbote, null Yanping Lu, "Communication performance of a modular high-bandwidth multiprocessor system," icpads, vol. 1, pp.1-8, 13th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems - Volume 1 (ICPADS'07), 2007
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