Title: BSN-mesh and its basic parallel algorithms

Authors: Wenhong Wei; Qingxia Li; Ming Tao

Addresses: School of Computer, Dongguan University of Technology, Dongguan 523808, China ' Department of Computer, City College of Dongguan University of Technology, Dongguan 523419, China ' School of Computer, Dongguan University of Technology, Dongguan 523808, China

Abstract: Mesh is the most famous, common and effective interconnection network, which has become the preferred topology of parallel processing and parallel computing systems. At the same time the Biswapped Network (BSN) provides an efficient two-level structure for large scalable, inheritance, modular architecture. In this paper, we present BSN-mesh as two-tier architecture with the advantages of both BSN and mesh. On the basis of the presented BSN-mesh, topological structure and many basic algorithms such as broadcast, data sum, prefix sum, packet routing and sorting are investigated. Compared with other two-tier architectures, especially OTIS-mesh, the time complexities of the mentioned algorithms running on BSN-mesh are much lower and BSN-mesh is more competitive.

Keywords: biswapped networks; BSNs; topology; parallel processing; parallel computing; time complexity; BSN mesh; broadcast; data sum; prefix sum; packet routing; sorting.

DOI: 10.1504/IJGUC.2015.070684

International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing, 2015 Vol.6 No.3/4, pp.213 - 220

Received: 13 Apr 2014
Accepted: 10 Dec 2014

Published online: 18 Jul 2015 *

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