A fault-tolerant routing strategy for k-ary n-direct s-indirect topologies based on intermediate nodes

[EN] Exascale computing systems are being built with thousands of nodes. The high number of components of these systems significantly increases the probability of failure. A key component for them is the interconnection network. If failures occur in the interconnection network, they may isolate a large fraction of the machine. For this reason, an efficient fault-tolerant mechanism is needed to keep the system interconnected, even in the presence of faults. A recently proposed topology for these large systems is the hybrid k-ary n-direct s-indirect family that provides optimal performance and connectivity at a reduced hardware cost. This paper presents a fault-tolerant routing methodology for the k-ary n-direct s-indirect topology that degrades performance gracefully in presence of faults and tolerates a large number of faults without disabling any healthy computing node. In order to tolerate network failures, the methodology uses a simple mechanism. For any source-destination pair, if necessary, packets are forwarded to the destination node through a set of intermediate nodes (without being ejected from the network) with the aim of circumventing faults. The evaluation results shows that the proposed methodology tolerates a large number of faults. For instance, it is able to tolerate more than 99.5% of fault combinations when there are 10 faults in a 3-D network with 1000 nodes using only 1 intermediate node and more than 99.98% if 2 intermediate nodes are used. Furthermore, the methodology offers a gracious performance degradation. As an example, performance degrades only by 1% for a 2-D network with 1024 nodes and 1% faulty links.This work was supported by the Spanish Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (MINECO), by FEDER funds under Grant TIN2015-66972-C5-1-R, by Programa de Ayudas de Investigación y Desarrollo (PAID) from Universitat Politècnica de alència and by the financial support of the FP7 HiPEAC Network of Excellence under grant agreement 287759Peñaranda Cebrián, R.; Gómez Requena, ME.; López Rodríguez, PJ.; Gran, EG.; Skeie, T. (2017). A fault-tolerant routing strategy for k-ary n-direct s-indirect topologies based on intermediate nodes. Concurrency and Computation Practice and Experience. 29(13):1-11. https://doi.org/10.1002/cpe.4065S111291

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