Just curious, what exactly defines a "scalable" interconnect? Does that just mean it can handle an arbitrary number of processes shouting over an interconnect, or does it have some other special scalability properties that make it efficient?
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It means the design can scale to handle the high amount of traffic that results from serving many cores. We'll talk about the design of interconnection networks later in the course.
Just curious, what exactly defines a "scalable" interconnect? Does that just mean it can handle an arbitrary number of processes shouting over an interconnect, or does it have some other special scalability properties that make it efficient?
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It means the design can scale to handle the high amount of traffic that results from serving many cores. We'll talk about the design of interconnection networks later in the course.
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