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WCTT bounds for MPI primitives in the PaterNoster NoC

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Alexander Stegmeier,

Theo UngererAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGBED Review, Volume 13, Issue 4

Pages 25 - 30

https://doi.org/10.1145/3015037.3015041

Published: 03 November 2016 Publication History

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This paper applies several variants of application independent time-division multiplexing to MPI primitives and investigates their applicability for different scopes of communication. Thereby, the scopes are characterized by the size of the network-on-chip, the number of participating nodes and the message size sent to each receiver or received from each sender, respectively. The evaluation shows that none of the observed variants feature the lowest worst-case traversal time in all situations. Instead there are multiple schedule variants which each perform best in a different scope of communication parameters.

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Stegmeier AFrieb MMische JUngerer TOuhammou YRidouard FGrolleau EJan MBehnam M(2018)Analysing Real-Time Behaviour of Collective Communication Patterns in MPIProceedings of the 26th International Conference on Real-Time Networks and Systems10.1145/3273905.3273906(137-147)Online publication date: 10-Oct-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3273905.3273906
Mische JFrieb MStegmeier AUngerer T(2017)Reduced Complexity Many-Core: Timing Predictability Due to Message-PassingArchitecture of Computing Systems - ARCS 201710.1007/978-3-319-54999-6_11(139-151)Online publication date: 4-Mar-2017
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54999-6_11

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ACM SIGBED Review Volume 13, Issue 4

Special Issue on 14th International Workshop on RealTime Networks (RTN 2016)

September 2016

65 pages

EISSN:1551-3688

DOI:10.1145/3015037

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Stegmeier AFrieb MMische JUngerer TOuhammou YRidouard FGrolleau EJan MBehnam M(2018)Analysing Real-Time Behaviour of Collective Communication Patterns in MPIProceedings of the 26th International Conference on Real-Time Networks and Systems10.1145/3273905.3273906(137-147)Online publication date: 10-Oct-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3273905.3273906
Mische JFrieb MStegmeier AUngerer T(2017)Reduced Complexity Many-Core: Timing Predictability Due to Message-PassingArchitecture of Computing Systems - ARCS 201710.1007/978-3-319-54999-6_11(139-151)Online publication date: 4-Mar-2017
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54999-6_11

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