Principles and Practices of Interconnection Networks

CHAPTER 25

Simulation Examples

Now that we have discussed aspects of network design along with the tools of network

simulation, several simulation examples are presented.These examples are not meant

as a detailed study of any particular aspect of network or router design. Rather, they

are designed to both introduce several useful experiments that can be performed

on a typical interconnection network and emphasize some interesting and perhaps

counter-intuitive results.

All simulations in this chapter were performed with the detailed, flit-level simu-

lator described in Appendix C. Unless otherwise stated, the routers are input-queued

with an input speedup ...