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Paper   IPM / Computer Science / 11111
School of Computer Science
  Title:   A constraint-based performance comparison of hypercube and star multicomputers with failures
  Author(s): 
1.  M. Rezazad
2.  H. Sarbazi-Azad
  Status:   In Proceedings
  Proceeding: AINA
  Vol.:  1
  Year:  2005
  Pages:   841-846
  Publisher(s):   IEEE Computer Society
  Supported by:  IPM
  Abstract:
Many theoretical studies have compared the hypercube and star graphs from a graph theoretical viewpoint, under structural and algorithmic properties. None of these studies have, however, considered real working conditions and implementation constraints. In this paper, the hypercube and star graphs are compared in view of fault tolerance and technological implementation constraints. In order to realize a fair comparison, we use the unsafety-vector fault tolerant routing algorithm, recently introduced in [1] and [2], for the hypercube and star graph. Under two implementation constraints, namely constant bisection bandwidth and constant node pin-out, we have compared the performance of the two networks for different fault rates. The results obtained through simulation experiments reveal that, in the presence of low fault rates, the star graph is of better performance than the hypercube.

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