<div dir="ltr">Hi Bill,<div><br></div><div>I am not clear as to what you are saying.</div><div><br></div><div>I understand non-oversubscribed, fat-tree networks to be described as non-blocking for "some" bi-sections of the nodes, but not for all bi-sections. It is possible to block in a "non-blocking" network except on the local crossbar.</div>
<div><br></div><div>At least that is what Chuck Seitz drove into our heads whenever we said that a Clos was non-blocking. :-)</div><div><br></div><div>Scott</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 4:06 PM, Bill Broadley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bill@cse.ucdavis.edu" target="_blank">bill@cse.ucdavis.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On 02/01/2014 08:17 AM, atchley <a href="http://tds.net" target="_blank">tds.net</a> wrote:<br>
> The cross-bar switch only guarantees non-blocking if the two ports are on<br>
> the same line card (i.e. using the same crossbar). Once you start<br>
> traversing multiple crossbars, you are sharing links and can experience<br>
> congestion.<br>
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</div>Full backplane means no shared links, even if multiple switches are involved.<br>
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Shared links are used when you oversubscribe the uplinks, like with a half or<br>
quarter backplane configuration.<br>
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