HFBN: An Energy Efficient High Performance Hierarchical Interconnection Network for Exascale Supercomputer

Abstract

Supercomputers are trying to be eco-friendly using their main components like- interconnection networks, processors, and shared memory through high power efficiency (GFlops/watts). The reason for this is the exascale systems, are on the horizon, require a 1000 times performance improvement over the petascale computers and energy efficiency has attracted as the key factor for to achieve exascale system. The main contribution of this paper is to introduce a new hierarchical interconnection network; considering simulations at the million processing cores especially for the exascale system. Moreover, our designed network claims the supremacy of high network performance and low power consumption over the conventional networks and ensuring the utmost preferability for exaFLOPS system. On the other hand, the performance per watt metric, used for the TOP500 list, doesn’t reflect the overall performance of a given system. Hence, one of the possible solutions to reach the next generation exascale performance is to redesign the "Interconnection Network", which holds the main responsibility for the intercommunication between the CPUs and also the power consumption for the supercomputers. This paper focuses on a redesigned new energy efficient interconnection network that mitigates the problems of high power consumption, longer wiring length, and low bandwidth issues. Our designed network (HFBN) has been compared against the Tofu network and in the case of 1M cores, HFBN can obtain about 87.26% better energy efficiency at the zero load latency with uniform traffic, about 86.32% with perfect shuffle traffic, and about 92.98% with the bit-compliment traffic.