一种电交换与光交换混合的可重构互连网络系统.pdfVIP

一种电交换和光交换混合的可重构互连网络系统 1 1 1 陈淑平 吴志兵 彭龙根 1 （江南计算技术研究所 无锡 214000 ） 摘 要 目前提高超级计算机运算速度的主要技术途径是增加处理器个数以及处理器内的核数，这给互连网络的规模及通信 性能带来了很大的挑战。光线路交换技术以其较低的价格和功耗成为最有发展前景的网络互连技术之一。本文介绍了两种电 交换和光交换混合的网络互连结构 ，并结合两者的优点设计了一种新的可重构互连网络系统。该系统的通信性能跟胖树结构 相比没有明显下降 ，而所需的交换机端口数大大减少 ，从而降低了系统造价和功耗。另外 ，同原来的两种互连结构相比，该 系统的管理复杂度也大大降低。因此，该系统为构建E 级系统互连网络提供了较好的选择。 关键词 电交换和光交换，可重构互连网络，E 级系统 ，高性能计算 中图法分类号 TP393 文献标识码 A Reconfigurable Interconnect System with Hybrid Electrical/Optical Switch 1 1 1 CHEN Shu-Ping WU Zhi-Bing PENG Long-Gen 1 (Jiangnan Institute of Computing Technology ，Wuxi 214000 ，China) Abstract At present the improvements of computing capability in super-computers are driven by increasing the number of processors and by increasing the number of cores in one processor. This poses a great challenge to the scalability and performance of interconnect networks. Optical circuit switch technology is one of the most promising alternatives to implement the interconnect networks due to its lower price and power consumption . This paper introduces two hybrid electrical/optical switch interconnect architectures, and proposes a novel reconfigurable interconnect architecture based on these two architectures. The interconnect system can achieve comparable performance compared to the fat-tree architecture while the number of required electrical switch ports decreases rapidly ，con