skip to main content
10.1145/1298275.1298283acmconferencesArticle/Chapter ViewAbstractPublication PagesmswimConference Proceedingsconference-collections
Article

A distributed approach to handle topological changes in advanced switching

Published: 22 October 2007 Publication History

Abstract

Advanced Switching Interconnect (ASI) is a new high-performance serial interconnect. In order to support high availability, its specification establishes a management infrastructure, which is in charge of maintaining the network operation after the occurrence of a topological change. During the change assimilation process, a management mechanism must discover the new topology, obtain a set of paths, and finally distribute them to the fabric endpoints. Recently, an implementation for this mechanism has been proposed, in which a management entity performs all the previous tasks in a centralized way. In this paper, we propose a distributed solution for computing the new set of paths, with the aim of reducing the negative impact on the network service of the centralized proposal.

References

[1]
Advanced Switching Interconnect Special Interest Group. Advanced Switching Core Architecture Specification Revision 1.0. http:// www.picmg.org, 2003.
[2]
Avresky, D. Dynamic Reconfiguration in Computer Clusters with Irregular Topologies in the Presence of Multiple Node and Link Failures. IEEE Transactions on Computers, 54, 5 (May 2005).
[3]
Bermúdez, A., Casado, R., Quiles, F. J., and Duato, J. Fast Routing Computation on InfiniBand Networks. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 17, 3 (Mar. 2006).
[4]
Casado, R., Bermúdez, A., Quiles, F. J., Sánchez, J. L., and Duato, J. A protocol for deadlock-free dynamic reconfiguration in high-speed local area networks. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 12, 2 (Feb. 2001).
[5]
InfiniBand Architecture Specification Revision 1.2. http://www.infinibandta.com/, 2002.
[6]
Lysne, O. and Duato, J. Fast dynamic reconfiguration in irregular networks. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel Processing, 2000.
[7]
Lysne, O., Montañana, J. M., Pinkston, T. M., Duato, J., Skeie, T., and Flich, J. Simple deadlock-free dynamic network reconfiguration. In Proceedings of the International Conference on High Performance Computing, 2004.
[8]
Mayhew, D. and Krishnan, V. PCI Express and Advanced Switching: evolutionary path to building next generation interconnects. In Proceedings of the 11th Symposium on High Performance Interconnects (HOTI'03), 2003.
[9]
OPNET Technologies, Inc. http://www.opnet.com, 2007.
[10]
PCI-SIG. PCI Express Base Specification Revision 1.0a. http://www.pci--sig.org, 2003.
[11]
Pinkston, T. M., Pang, R., and Duato, J. Deadlock-free dynamic reconfiguration schemes for increased network dependability. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 14, 6, (Jun. 2003).
[12]
Robles-Gómez, A., García, E. M., Bermúdez, A., Casado, R., and Quiles, F. J. A Model for the Development of ASI Fabric Management Protocols. In Proceedings of the Euro-Par 2006 Conference, 2006.
[13]
Robles-Gómez, A., Bermúdez, A., Casado, R., and Quiles, F. J. Implementing the Advanced Switching Fabric Discovery Process. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Communication Architecture for Clusters (CAC'07), 2007.
[14]
Robles-Gómez, A., Bermúdez, A., Casado, R., and Quiles, F. J. A Complete Topology Management Mechanism for the Advanced Switching Interconnect Technology. In Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC'07), 2007.
[15]
Robles-Gómez, A., Bermúdez, A., Casado, R., and Quiles, F. J. Evaluation of a Fabric Management Mechanism for Advanced Switching in Presence of Traffic. Submitted to Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and network-based Processing (PDP 2008), 2008.
[16]
Rooholamini, M. and Kaapor, R. Fabric discovery in ASI. http://www.networksystemsdesignline.com/showArticle.jhtml?printableArticle=true&articleId=171202366, 2005.
[17]
Schroeder, M. D., Birrell, A. D., Burrows, M., Murray, H., Needham, R. M., Rodeheffer T. L., Satterthwate, E. H., and Thacker, C. P. Autonet: a high-speed, self-configuring local area network using point-to-point links. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 9, 8 (Oct. 1991).

Cited By

View all
  • (2009)Efficient and deadlock-free reconfiguration for source routed networksProceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Symposium on Parallel&Distributed Processing10.1109/IPDPS.2009.5160889(1-8)Online publication date: 23-May-2009

Recommendations

Comments

Information & Contributors

Information

Published In

cover image ACM Conferences
PM2HW2N '07: Proceedings of the 2nd ACM workshop on Performance monitoring and measurement of heterogeneous wireless and wired networks
October 2007
144 pages
ISBN:9781595938053
DOI:10.1145/1298275
Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for components of this work owned by others than ACM must be honored. Abstracting with credit is permitted. To copy otherwise, or republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee. Request permissions from [email protected]

Sponsors

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery

New York, NY, United States

Publication History

Published: 22 October 2007

Permissions

Request permissions for this article.

Check for updates

Author Tags

  1. advanced switching interconnect
  2. network availability
  3. network management
  4. network reconfiguration
  5. performance evaluation

Qualifiers

  • Article

Conference

MSWiM07
Sponsor:

Acceptance Rates

Overall Acceptance Rate 74 of 226 submissions, 33%

Contributors

Other Metrics

Bibliometrics & Citations

Bibliometrics

Article Metrics

  • Downloads (Last 12 months)1
  • Downloads (Last 6 weeks)0
Reflects downloads up to 16 Feb 2025

Other Metrics

Citations

Cited By

View all
  • (2009)Efficient and deadlock-free reconfiguration for source routed networksProceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Symposium on Parallel&Distributed Processing10.1109/IPDPS.2009.5160889(1-8)Online publication date: 23-May-2009

View Options

Login options

View options

PDF

View or Download as a PDF file.

PDF

eReader

View online with eReader.

eReader

Figures

Tables

Media

Share

Share

Share this Publication link

Share on social media