Interconnects
The following gives an overview of the changing popularity of the
different interconnects over the years.
- Each column show the top 500 list, YYMM.
- The rows represent the various types of interconnects as documented in the Top 500 database
- Each figure represents the number of interconnects for the given list.
- The large number of N/A entries in the early years can be
attributed to the big iron type machine, e.g. vector computers and SMPs,
and perhaps also to the fact that the interconnect field is a recent
addition to the database and that it was not documented originally by
the submitter.
9306 9311 9406 9411 9506 9511 9606 9611 9706 9711 9806 9811 9906 9911 0006 0011 0106 0111 0206 0211 0306 0311 0406 0411
Cray Interconnect 10 17 32 32 33 59 67 68 69 64 66 56 48 47 45 39 26 22 16 10 3 2
Crossbar 1 7 8 19 22 57 65 141 164 151 154 145 117 115 111 86 69 60 51 54 37 28 23
Ethernet 10 7 6 11 15 4 25 18 14
Fast Ethernet 1 2 6 8 8 6 2 3 5 7 10 10 8 4 1 2
Fireplane 9 84 5 4 1 2
Gigabit Ethernet 41 33 63 109 163 176
Giganet 1 1 2 3 1 1 1
HIPPI 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Infiniband 1 3 10 10
Mixed 1 2
Myrinet 1 2 43 42 9 23 112 162 136 177 193 186 193
N/A 500 498 483 475 449 446 409 376 289 259 230 193 168 142 144 100 114 87 32 4 4 4
NUMAflex 9 11 21 31 37 28 1 1
NUMAlink 6 11 18 17
PARAMNet 1 1
Proprietary 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 1 1 1 1 2 3 4
Quadrics 1 1 5 8 8 15 22 26 26 26 23 20
SCI 1 3 6 6 2 2
SP Switch 2 41 78 100 130 135 206 190 150 88 80 81 63 57 46
Raw data source: http://www.top500.org/sublist/.
Some interesting points to note:
- The Crossbar was very popular in the late 90's.
- Myrinet, Gigabit, Infiniband and Quadrics are this era's popular interconnects.
- It would of course be interesting to see what the top 1000 would have shown us!
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