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For the parent: and not only bottlenecked at single hops but also hampered by the propagation of latency as the hops increase, depending on the complexity of th

For the parent: and not only bottlenecked at single hops but also hampered by the propagation of latency as the hops increase, depending on the complexity of the distributed system design.

throw0101b 1y ago
> […] by the propagation of latency as the hops increase […] Which is why you get network topologies other than 'just' fat tree in HPC networks: * https://www.hpcwire.com/2019/07/15/super-connecting-the-supercomputers-innovations-through-network-topologies/ https://www.hpcwire.com/2019/07/15/super-connecting-the-supe... * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torus_interconnect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torus_interconnect