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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 03, 2013
Filed:
Jun. 01, 2012
Bin Jia, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Bin Jia, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
In an interconnection network, multiple nodes are connected to one of a first layer of switches. The first layer of switches is connected to one another through a second layer of switches. Each of the nodes is connected through one of multiple shared links connecting the first layer switches and the second layer of switches. A pipelined broadcast manager schedules a hierarchical pipelined broadcast through at least one switch of the first layer switches comprising non-root nodes by selecting two nodes among the non-root nodes connected to the at least one switch and scheduling each of multiple broadcast steps for the pipelined broadcast with at least one of an inter-switch broadcast phase and an intra-switch broadcast phase using the selected two nodes.