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Randomized Routing on Fat-trees

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Greenberg, Ronald I.; Leiserson, Charles E.
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Abstract
Fat-trees are a class of routing networks for hardware-efficient paralle computation. This paper presents a randomized algorithm for routing messages on a fat-tree. The quality of the algorithm is measured in terms of the load factor of a set of messages to be routed, which is a lower bound on the time required to deliver the messages. We show that if a set of messages has load factor lambda on a fat-tree with n processors, the number of delivery cyles (routing attempts) that the algorithm requires is O(lambda + lg n lg lg n) with probability 1-O(1/n). The best previous bound was )(lambda lg n) for the off-line problem where switch settings can be determined in advance. In a VLSI-like model where hardware cost is equated with physical volume, the routing algorithm demonstrates that fat-trees are universal routing networks in the sense that any routing network can be efficiently simulated by a fat-tree of comparable hardward cost.
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1986-05
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https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/149116
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MIT-LCS-TM-307

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