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CRANIUM: An Interface for Message Passing on Adaptive Packet Routing Networks


Neil R. McKenzie, Kevin Bolding, Carl Ebeling and Lawrence Snyder. "CRANIUM: An Interface for Message Passing on Adaptive Packet Routing Networks", Proceedings of the 1994 Parallel Computer Routing and Communication Workshop, May 1994.

Abstract

Cranium is a processor-network interface for an interconnection network based on adaptive packet routing. Adaptive networks relax the restriction that packet order is preserved; packets may be delivered to their destinations in an arbitrary sequence. Cranium uses two mechanisms: an automatic-receive interface for packet serialization and high performance, and a rendezvous interface for flexibility. To minimize software overhead, Cranium is directly accessible by user-level programs. Protection for user-level message passing is implemented by mapping user-level handles into physical node identifiers and buffer addresses.


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