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Adaptive and fault-tolerant routing with 100% node utilization for mesh multicomputer
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Adaptive and fault-tolerant routing with 100% node utilization for mesh multicomputer

Sheng-De Wang and Ming-Jer Tsai
Proceedings of the Internatoinal Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems - ICPADS, pp.367-374
1998

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In this paper, we propose an adaptive and deadlock-free routing algorithm to tolerate irregular faulty patterns using two virtual channels per physical link. It can improve the node utilization up to 100%. When a node becomes faulty or recovered, the central control unit constructs a directed path graph which is used for generating the intermediate nodes of the message path. Thus a message can be transmitted front sources or to destinations within faulty blocks via a set of `intermediate nodes'. Our method requires the global failure information if the central control unit is not available.

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