DEADLOCK-FREE MULTICAST ROUTING ON A DRAGONFLY NETWORK

    公开(公告)号:US20220224639A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-07-14

    申请号:US17594686

    申请日:2020-03-23

    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for managing multicast data transmission in a network having a plurality of switches arranged in a Dragonfly network topology, including: receiving a multicast transmission at an edge port of a switch and identifying the transmission as a network multicast transmission; creating an entry in a multicast table within the switch; routing the multicast transmission across the network to a plurality of destinations via a plurality of links, wherein at each of the links the multicast table is referenced to determine to which ports the multicast transmission should be forwarded; and changing, when necessary, the virtual channel used by each copy of the multicast transmission as the copy progresses through the network.

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