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Copyright © The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Permission required for reproduction or display. Evaluating 2-D Meshes Diameter: (n 1/2 ) Diameter: (n 1/2 ) Bisection width: (n 1/2 ) Bisection width: (n 1/2 ) Number of edges per switch: 4 Number of edges per switch: 4 Constant edge length? Yes Constant edge length? Yes
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Copyright © The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Permission required for reproduction or display. Evaluating Binary Tree Network Diameter: 2 log n Diameter: 2 log n Bisection width: 1 Bisection width: 1 Edges / node: 3 Edges / node: 3 Constant edge length? No Constant edge length? No
Copyright © The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Permission required for reproduction or display. Hypertree Network Indirect topology Indirect topology Shares low diameter of binary tree Shares low diameter of binary tree Greatly improves bisection width Greatly improves bisection width From “front” looks like k-ary tree of height d From “front” looks like k-ary tree of height d From “side” looks like upside down binary tree of height d From “side” looks like upside down binary tree of height d
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Copyright © The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Permission required for reproduction or display. Evaluating 4-ary Hypertree Diameter: log n Diameter: log n Bisection width: n / 2 Bisection width: n / 2 Edges / node: 6 Edges / node: 6 Constant edge length? No Constant edge length? No
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Copyright © The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Permission required for reproduction or display. Evaluating Butterfly Network Diameter: log n Diameter: log n Bisection width: n / 2 Bisection width: n / 2 Edges per node: 4 Edges per node: 4 Constant edge length? No Constant edge length? No
Copyright © The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Permission required for reproduction or display. Hypercube Direct topology Direct topology 2 x 2 x … x 2 mesh 2 x 2 x … x 2 mesh Number of nodes a power of 2 Number of nodes a power of 2 Node addresses 0, 1, …, 2 k -1 Node addresses 0, 1, …, 2 k -1 Node i connected to k nodes whose addresses differ from i in exactly one bit position Node i connected to k nodes whose addresses differ from i in exactly one bit position
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Copyright © The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Permission required for reproduction or display. Evaluating Hypercube Network Diameter: log n Diameter: log n Bisection width: n / 2 Bisection width: n / 2 Edges per node: log n Edges per node: log n Constant edge length? No Constant edge length? No