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Separated High-Bandwidth and Low-Latency Communication in the Cluster Interconnect Clint

Overview An interconnect for a high-performance cluster has to be optimized in respect to both high throughput and low latency. To avoid the tradeoff between throughput and latency, the cluster interconnect Clint has a segregated architecture that provides two physically separate transmission channels: a bulk channel optimized for high-bandwidth traffic and a quick channel optimized for low-latency traffic. Different scheduling strategies are applied. The bulk channel uses a scheduler that globally allocates time slots on the transmission paths before packets are sent off.

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Publisher	Sun Microsystems	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	October 2002	Downloads	8
Format	White Papers
Topics	Bandwidth Issues

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