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We measure communication rates for the Cray T3D interprocessor network. First we design experiments with no contention on the network to establish the achievable fraction of the peak hardware rate. Then we increase the contention with a sequence of experiments designed to measure the robustness of the network. We analyze the results in terms of the Hockney parameters, r ∞ and n 1/2.
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Numrich, R.W., Springer, P.L., Peterson, J.C. (1994). Measurement of communication rates on the cray T3D interprocessor network. In: Gentzsch, W., Harms, U. (eds) High-Performance Computing and Networking. HPCN-Europe 1994. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 797. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-57981-8_108
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