The performance of the m-level hierarchical multiprocessor system is analyzed in terms of the system bandwidth for both hierarchically nonuniform reference and uniform reference models. The results show that for a higher rate of local requests (requests to memory modules within the same cluster) the m-level system performs fairly close to the crossbar system and outperforms a typical multiple-bus system (with the number of buses equal to half the number of processors). The bandwidth of the m-level system is evaluated for different numbers of levels, and the results are compared with those of a crossbar system (m=1)
Published in:
Parallel and Distributed Systems, IEEE Transactions on
(Volume:3
,
Issue:
2
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Date of Publication:
Mar 1992
- Page(s):
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129
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138
- ISSN :
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1045-9219
- INSPEC Accession Number:
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4167816
- Digital Object Identifier :
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10.1109/71.127255
- Product Type:
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Journals & Magazines
- Date of Current Version :
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06 August 2002
- Issue Date :
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Mar 1992
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IEEE Computer Society