Towards an Efficient Combination of Adaptive Routing and Queuing Schemes in Fat-Tree Topologies

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Main Authors: Rocher-Gonzalez, Jose, Escudero-Sahuquillo, Jesus, Garcia, Pedro J., Quiles, Francisco J., Mora, Gaspar
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Published: 2025
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author Rocher-Gonzalez, Jose
Escudero-Sahuquillo, Jesus
Garcia, Pedro J.
Quiles, Francisco J.
Mora, Gaspar
author_facet Rocher-Gonzalez, Jose
Escudero-Sahuquillo, Jesus
Garcia, Pedro J.
Quiles, Francisco J.
Mora, Gaspar
contents The interconnection network is a key element in High-Performance Computing (HPC) and Datacenter (DC) systems whose performance depends on several design parameters, such as the topology, the switch architecture, and the routing algorithm. Among the most common topologies in HPC systems, the Fat-Tree offers several shortest-path routes between any pair of end-nodes, which allows multi-path routing schemes to balance traffic flows among the available links, thus reducing congestion probability. However, traffic balance cannot solve by itself some congestion situations that may still degrade network performance. Another approach to reduce congestion is queue-based flow separation, but our previous work shows that multi-path routing may spread congested flows across several queues, thus being counterproductive. In this paper, we propose a set of restrictions to improve alternative routes selection for multi-path routing algorithms in Fat-Tree networks, so that they can be positively combined with queuing schemes.
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spellingShingle Towards an Efficient Combination of Adaptive Routing and Queuing Schemes in Fat-Tree Topologies
Rocher-Gonzalez, Jose
Escudero-Sahuquillo, Jesus
Garcia, Pedro J.
Quiles, Francisco J.
Mora, Gaspar
Networking and Internet Architecture
The interconnection network is a key element in High-Performance Computing (HPC) and Datacenter (DC) systems whose performance depends on several design parameters, such as the topology, the switch architecture, and the routing algorithm. Among the most common topologies in HPC systems, the Fat-Tree offers several shortest-path routes between any pair of end-nodes, which allows multi-path routing schemes to balance traffic flows among the available links, thus reducing congestion probability. However, traffic balance cannot solve by itself some congestion situations that may still degrade network performance. Another approach to reduce congestion is queue-based flow separation, but our previous work shows that multi-path routing may spread congested flows across several queues, thus being counterproductive. In this paper, we propose a set of restrictions to improve alternative routes selection for multi-path routing algorithms in Fat-Tree networks, so that they can be positively combined with queuing schemes.
title Towards an Efficient Combination of Adaptive Routing and Queuing Schemes in Fat-Tree Topologies
topic Networking and Internet Architecture
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.00597