Lecture 9 - Åbo Akademi
Lecture 9 - Åbo Akademi
Lecture 9 - Åbo Akademi
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HERMES<br />
• Developed at the Faculdade de Informática PUCRS,<br />
Brazil<br />
• Direct network<br />
• 2-D mesh topology<br />
• WH switching with minimal XY routing algorithm<br />
• 8 bit flit size; first 2 flits of packet contain header<br />
• Header has target address and number of flits in the<br />
packet<br />
• Parameterizable input queuing<br />
• to reduce the number of switches affected by a blocked packet<br />
• Connectionless: cannot provide any form of bandwidth or<br />
latency GS