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Scheduling array redistribution with virtual channel support

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This paper addresses the well-known problem of redistributing data arrays over a multiprocessor network. The block-cyclic redistribution techniques found in the literature deal effectively with this problem, based on the assumption that there is a direct link between all the processors of the network. Most of these techniques aim at reducing the number of messages and the total redistribution cost. However, an application of these techniques on non-all-to-all communication networks, like tori, shows that these techniques suffer long delays. In this work, we try to solve the general block-cyclic redistribution problem on non-all-to-all networks, by grouping the messages into well-defined classes, and transferring them with the support of a well-specified number of virtual channels.

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Souravlas, S., Roumeliotis, M. Scheduling array redistribution with virtual channel support. J Supercomput 71, 4215–4234 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11227-015-1519-4

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