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Issue No.11 - November (1996 vol.45)
pp: 1326-1330
ABSTRACT
<p><b>Abstract</b>—A mesh-bus computer is a parallel computer in which nodes (i.e., processors) are arranged on a two-dimensional array, and nodes on each row and nodes on each column, respectively, are connected by a shared bus. The nodes communicate with each other by exchanging packets through shared buses in CREW manner. Suppose that each node initially contains a piece of information called a token. A gossiping problem is the routing problem of exchanging tokens among all nodes in the computer, which has been studied extensively as a basic communication scheme for sharing information among nodes in a parallel computer. In this paper, we propose three gossiping algorithms for mesh-bus computers assuming that each packet can carry at most <tmath>$\ell$</tmath> tokens in a step, where <tmath>$\ell$</tmath> is a function of the number of all nodes. It is shown that by selecting the fastest algorithm among them, for each given function <tmath>$\ell$</tmath>, a lower bound on the gossiping time can be attained asymptotically.</p>
INDEX TERMS
Routing algorithm, mesh computer, shared bus, gossiping, packet length, optimal time bound.
CITATION
Satoshi Fujita, Masafumi Yamashita, "Fast Gossiping on Mesh-Bus Computers", IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol.45, no. 11, pp. 1326-1330, November 1996, doi:10.1109/12.544491