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Simulator for Dynamic 2/3-Dimensional Switching of Computing Resources

  • Ki, Jang-Geun (Div. of Electrical, Electronic and Control Engineering, Kongju Nat'l Univ.) ;
  • Kwon, Kee-Young (Div. of Electrical, Electronic and Control Engineering, Kongju Nat'l Univ.)
  • Received : 2020.05.03
  • Accepted : 2020.05.14
  • Published : 2020.08.31
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Abstract

In this paper, as part of the research for the infrastructure of very high flexible and reconfigurable data center using very high speed crossbar switches, we developed a simulator that can model two and three dimensional connection structure of switches with an efficient control algorithm using software defined network and verified the functions and analyzed the performance accordingly. The simulator consists of a control module and a switch module that was coded using Python language based on the Mininet and Ryu Openflow frameworks. The control module dynamically controls the operation of switching cells using a shortest multipath algorithm to calculate efficient paths adaptively between configurable computing resources. Performance analysis by using the simulator shows that the three-dimensional switch architecture can accommodate more hosts per port and has about 1.5 times more successful 1:n connections per port with the same number of switches than the two-dimensional architecture. Also simulation results show that connection length in a 3-dimensional way is shorter than that of 2-dimensional way and the unused switch ratio in a 3-dimensional case is lower than that of 2-dimensional cases.

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