
10.7.4 Output Scheduling 808
10.7.5 Stacked Dimension Switches 810
10.8 Flow Control 811
10.8.1 Parallel Computer Networks versus LANs and WANs 811
10.8.2 Link-Level Flow Control 813
10.8.3 End-to-End Flow Control 816
10.9 Case Studies 818
10.9.1 CRAY T3D Network 818
10.9.2 IBM SP-l.SP-2 Network 820
10.9.3 Scalable Coherent Interface 822
10.9.4 SGI Origin Network 825
10.9.5 Myricom Network 826
10.10 Concluding Remarks 827
10.11 Exercises 828
1 Latency Tolerance 831
11.1 Overview of Latency Tolerance 834
11.1.1 Latency Tolerance and the Communication Pipeline 836
11.1.2 Approaches 837
11.1.3 Fundamental Requirements, Benefits, and Limitation ...