SPAX: A New Parallel Processing System for Commercial Application

Inthispaper, anewparallel processingsystemforcommercial applications, so called SPAX, is described. SPAX cost-effectively overcomes the SMP limitation by providing scalabilityof the parallel processing system and application portability of the SMP. We also describe a new system network, so called XcentNet, which interconnects hundreds of multiprocessor PC boards in SPAX. It is a hierarchical network that provides incremental scalability with minimum re-wiring when the user’s requirement is changed. This is based on the low latency crossbar routers, which build up a router-cloud and provide up to 2.67 Gbytes/sec/router-cloud of bandwidth. We briefly describe the preliminary evaluation result that shows Xcent-Net shall not be the bottleneck in the system running a typical commercial application.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1997
• Where: IPPS
• Authors: Woo-Jong Hahn, Kee-Wook Rim, Soo-Won Kim
• Keywords: Distributed And Parallel Computing, IPPS 1997, Latency Crossbar Routers, Multiprocessor Pc Boards, SMP Limitation