The Tofu Interconnect D

In this paper, we introduce a new and highly scalable interconnect called Tofu interconnect D that will be used in the post-K machine. This machine will officially be operational around 2021. The letter D represents high “density” node and “dynamic” packet slicing for “dual-rail” transfer. Herein we describe the design and the evaluation results of TofuD. Due to the high-density packaging, the optical link ratio of TofuD has decreased to 25% from the 66% optical link ratio of Tofu2. TofuD applies a new technique called dynamic packet slicing to reduce latency and to improve fault resilience. The evaluation results show that the one-way 8-byte Put latency is 0.49 μs. This is 31% lower than the latency of Tofu2. The injection rate per node is 38.1 GB/s which is approximately 83% of the injection rate of Tofu2. The link efficiency is as high as approximately 93%.