Design and analysis for the running mechanism and feature parameters of the Bus Bridge network

Li-jie Jin
Department of Computer Science,
Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics,
37 XueYuan Road, Haidian District, Beijing, P.R.China, 100083.
jlj@cs.sebuaa.ac.cn

Wei Li
Department of Computer Science,
Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics,
37 XueYuan Road, Haidian District, Beijing, P.R.China, 100083.
liwei@cs.sebuaa.ac.cn

Abstract

The Bus Bridge Protocol (BBP) is a multi-computer interconnected protocol that is used to construct parallel computer clusters. It was put forward in 1991. The original intention is to design a kind of the relay protocol to satisfy the connection of devices and processors which use different bus standards. In recent years, research and experiments demonstrate that the BBP has advantages for constructing Scaleable Parallel Computer Systems.

This paper introduces the principle of a bus bridge network and a workstation cluster based on the bus bridge multi-computer interconnected network. Some key feature parameters such as blocking probability, setting-up delay, effective utility ratio and their relations are discussed in order to provide a theory to prove the implementation of a scalable parallel computer system based on the BBP.

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