Providing quality of service in omni‑path networks.

New hierarchical crossbar switch architectures, such as Omni-Path (OPA) and Cray X2, have appeared to improve packet latency, reduce overall cost and increase fault tolerance of the high-performance interconnection networks in supercomputing and data center systems. These and other interconnect tech...

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Authors: Cano Cano, Javier, Andujar Muñoz, Francisco José, Alfaro Cortés, Francisco José, Sánchez García, José Luis, Mora, Gaspar
Format: article
Publication Date:2022
Country:España
Institution:Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha
Repository:RUIdeRA. Repositorio Institucional de la UCLM
OAI Identifier:oai:ruidera.uclm.es:10578/36820
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10578/36820
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Quality of Service (QoS)
Scheduling algorithms
Interconnection networks
Omni-Path (OPA)
Simulation
Hierarchical-crossbar-switch architecture
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Summary:New hierarchical crossbar switch architectures, such as Omni-Path (OPA) and Cray X2, have appeared to improve packet latency, reduce overall cost and increase fault tolerance of the high-performance interconnection networks in supercomputing and data center systems. These and other interconnect technologies (Infiniband or 40/100 Gigabit Ethernet) include support to provide quality of service (QoS) to the applications. In this paper, we show how this QoS support can be enabled to achieve bandwidth and/or latency differentiation in Omni-Path interconnection networks, as a representative case of hierarchical switches. To do that, three different table-based schedulers are used. We include the description of these schedulers and a comparative study by using the results obtained when we evaluate them with Hiperion, a simulation tool that implements an OPA model.