Performance Evaluation
This chapter studies the performance of interconnection networks, analyzing the effect of network traffic and the impact of many design parameters discussed in previous chapters. Whenever possible, suggestions will be given for some design parameters. However, we do not intend to study the whole design space. Therefore, this chapter also presents general aspects of network evaluation, so that you can evaluate the effect of parameters that are not considered in this chapter.
As indicated in Chapter 8, a high percentage of the communication latency in multicomputers is produced by the overhead in the software messaging layer. At first glance, it may seem that spending time in improving the performance of the interconnection ...
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