From leon Tue Feb 26 13:52:39 2002
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 16:28:45 -0500 (EST)
From: Leon Poutievsk
To: Netseminar 
Subject: Network seminar, Thursday, 2pm


Our next Network seminar is on Thursday, February 14th at 2pm. Tim Mattox
will talk about Flat Neighborhood Networks.

If you would like to give a talk on our seminar please contact me, we have
several spots available.


Speaker: Tim Mattox, Ph.D. student, Electrical and Computer Engineering, UK
Place: Verizon Room, on the 1st floor of the Hardymon Building
Time: Thursday, February 14th, 2:00-3:00pm

			Flat Neighborhood Networks

Parallel supercomputers have been designed and built since the early
days of computing, from the Illiac-IV in the 60's, to the modern beowulf
cluster.  The engineering tradeoffs on communication costs and
performance have led to many supercomputer network architectures over
the decades: from rings, meshes, hypercubes, trees, to fat-trees.
This talk will cover a groundbreaking new supercomputing network
architecture called a Flat Neighborhood Network (FNN).  FNNs provide low
latency and high bisection bandwidth for very low cost, outperforming
fat-trees which had been considered one of the best, if not the best,
universal supercomputer network architecture.  Invented/discovered at the
University of Kentucky in early 2000, FNNs have garnered world wide
recognition.  The fundamental properties of FNNs, and their ultimate
performance limits are still being explored.