Special issue of Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing: Communication architectures for scalable systems (CASS)

摘要

High-speed communication is critical to all parts of an HPC system. On-chip networks for emerging many-core processors; point-to-point interconnects, which have replaced the system bus for intra-node communication; and system-wide networks, which form the backbone of any large-scale parallel system, all contribute to the construction of the world's fastest computers. Numerous research groups in academia, industry, and government are currently investigating the issues involved in improving the speed, reliability, power consumption, and other characteristics of all of these types of interconnects and seeking new ways to advance the state of the art in cluster communication.