Parallel System Interconnections and Communications

This introduction to networking large scale parallel computer systems acts as a primary resource for a wide readership, including network systems engineers, electronics engineers, systems designers, computer scientists involved in systems design and implementation of parallel algorithms development, graduate students in systems architecture, design, or engineering.

Network Topologies, Models and ApplicationsParallel SystemsNetwork TopologiesArchitecture and Programming IssuesNetwork CommunicationsCommunication ModelsCommunication PatternsRouting in General GraphsCommunication RoutersMultistage Interconnection NetworksNetwork Representation and FunctionalitiesBlocking NetworksPermutation NetworksSpecial Purpose, Powerful NetworksCustomization and Commercial Hypercube SystemsShared Memory AlgorithmsHypercube NetworksTopological Properties and SortingHypercube CommunicationHypercube Embeddings and AlgorithmsCommercial Hypercube SystemsMesh NetworksTopological Properties and SortingMesh CommunicationMesh Embeddings and AlgorithmsCustomization and Commercial Mesh SystemsOther Potential Parallel NetworksCayley Graphsde Bruijn NetworkCirculant GraphsFat TreesFuture Trends in Parallel Computing and CommunicationParallel ComputingCommunication NetworksParadigms for Network Interconnects and Communication

Miltos D. Grammatikakis, D. Frank Hsu, Miroslav Kraetzl