Design and Performance Evaluation of Linearly Extensible Cube-Triangle Network for Multicore Systems

High-performance interconnection networks are currently being used to design Massively Parallel Computers. Selecting the set of nodes on which parallel tasks execute plays a vital role in the performance of such systems. These networks when deployed to run large parallel applications suffer from communication latencies which ultimately affect the system throughput. Mesh and Torus are primary examples of topologies used in such systems. However, these are being replaced with more efficient and complicated hybrid topologies such as ZMesh and x-Folded TM networks. This paper presents a new topology named as Linearly Extensible Cube-Triangle (LECΔ) which focuses on low latency, lesser average distance and improved throughput. It is symmetrical in nature and exhibits the desirable properties of similar networks with lesser complexity and cost. For N x N network, the LECΔ topology has lesser network latency than that of Mesh, ZMesh, Torus and x-Folded networks. The proposed LECΔ network produces reduced average distance, diameter and cost. It has a high value of bisection width and good scalability. The simulation results show that the performance of LECΔ network is similar to that of Mesh, ZMesh, Torus and x-Folded networks. The results verify the efficiency of the LECΔ network as evaluated and compared with similar networks.