Interconnection Networks

Rating:
Summary: Excellent
Review: There are many textbooks on interconnection networks for high performance parallel computers; however, in my opinion, this is the best one that I have ever seen. It provides an in-depth study concerning wormhole routing collective communications, fault tolerant issues, router architectures, and performance evaluation in the new generation parallel computers. Jose Duato and Lionel Ni are the famous masters of this field, especially on deadlock problems, and this book proves that again. The writing style is very clear and easily understandable with large examples. So, reading this book is much more delicious than reading technical and survey papers. Besides, authors also provide two simulators. The first simulator can be downloaded and installed from http://www.cc.gatech.edu/people/home/nissim/flitsim. And the second simulator can be run interactively from the web http://www.ece.gatech.edu/users/lockhart/janet. To sum up, if you want to learn about data communications on interconnection networks, I would definitely recommend picking up a copy of this book - I was very happy to have bought and read it.