Parallel optical interconnection network for SMPs

We propose a scalable address sub-network called Symmetric Multiprocessor Network (SYMNET) to solve the address bandwidth limitation in SMPs. Our simulation studies have shown 5-66% improvement in execution time and 5-78% improvement in average latency for SYMNET as compared to the electrical bus-based SMPs for various Splash-2 benchmarks.

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