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- InfiniBand
- An input/output architecture used in high-end computer clusters and storage networks, introduced in 1999. Using switched, point-to-point channels similar to mainframes and also similar to PCI Express (switched version...
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- Don't discount network technology in the energy-efficiency equation
- I haven't much thought about the role of networking equipment in more energy-efficient data centers. But switch maker Voltaire, a specialist in InfiniBand technology, is now co-opting this rallying cry. What gives it the right? Well, for starters, it's worth noting that some flavor of the company's...
- Tags: Energy Efficiency, Data Center, Network, Network Technology, Voltaire Inc., Data Centers, InfiniBand, Storage, Networking, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-10-15
- How Do I Get to Ethernet From Here?
- For data center storage networks, the most common technologies in use today are Ethernet, Fibre Channel, and, to a lesser extent, Infiniband. Ethernet is the network technology of choice for the Internet and other user networks, and is rapidly gaining in popularity as a storage network. Fibre Channel is the...
- Tags: Network, Storage Network, Ethernet, InfiniBand, Storage, Networking, Data Centers, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2009-04-01
- Understanding the Performance Impact of Non-Blocking Vs. Blocking InfiniBand Cluster Configurations on Dell M-Series Blades
- This paper showed the impact of blocking factor on the performance of various applications run on Dell PowerEdge blade chassis. The results show a significant impact on the performance of an application that is highly communication intensive. The bandwidth intensive NAS benchmarks that have collective communication pattern show significant impact...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Performance, Blade, Impact, Blade Servers, Performance Management, Utility Computing, InfiniBand, Servers, Network-Attached Storage (NAS), Hardware, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Networking, Storage
- White papers 2008-09-22
- PS3 chip powers world's fastest computer
- Some scoffed at the 8 PS3 supercomputer. But not the scientists at Los Alamos National Labs. They used the idea to build a 1 petaflop computer named Roadrunner - the world's fastest. Here's how. 1,000 trillion floating point operations per second Fine-grained simulation of aging nuclear...
- Tags: Sony PlayStation 3, Storage, AMD Opteron, RAM, Computer, Cell, Chip, Roadrunner, PowerXCell, InfiniBand, Processors, Networking, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-06-10
- Evaluating Sparse Data Storage Techniques for MPI Groups and Communicators
- This paper explores various sparse data storage techniques in order to reduce the amount of memory required for MPI groups and communicators. The idea behind the approach is to exploit similarities between the objects and thus store only the difference between the original process group and the resulting one. For...
- Tags: Technique, Netscape Communicator, University Of Houston, Data Storage, Productivity, InfiniBand, Networking
- White papers 2008-03-27
- Build a 10 Gbit home network for $1100
- Create the ultimate gaming supercomputer? You've overclocked, water cooled, matched DIMMs, added 10k drives and the latest 1 GB video card. But so have all your friends. What now? How about a 10 Gig home network for the ultimate gaming supercomputer? In a pricing breakthrough...
- Tags: Kit, Network, Home Network, Supercomputer, Adapter, Pricing Strategy, InfiniBand, Networking, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-01-31
- The Convergence of Ethernet and Ethernot: A 10-Gigabit Ethernet Perspective
- Off late, a vast number of interconnect technologies such as InfiniBand, Myrinet and Quadrics have been introduced into the System-Area Network SAN environment; the primary driving requirements of this environment being high-performance and a feature-rich interface. Ethernet, on the other hand, is already the ubiquitous technology for Wide-Area Network WAN...
- Tags: 10-Gigabit Ethernet, Environment, SAN, Convergence, Ethernet, Storage Area Networks (SAN), InfiniBand, Network Technology, WANs, Networking, Storage Management, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Shared Receive Queue Based Scalable MPI Design for InfiniBand Clusters
- Clusters of several thousand nodes interconnected with InniBand, an emerging high-performance interconnect, have already appeared in the Top 500 list. The next-generation InniBand clusters are expected to be even larger with tens-of-thousands of nodes. A high-performance scalable MPI design is crucial for MPI applications in order to exploit the massive...
- Tags: Ohio State University, Scalability, High-performance, Connection, MVAPICH, InfiniBand, Leadership, Networking, Management
- White papers 2008-01-01
- High Performance MPI-2 One-Sided Communication Over InfiniBand
- Many existing MPI-2 one-sided communication implementations are built on top of MPI send/receive operations. Although this approach can achieve good portability, it suffers from high communication overhead and dependency on remote process for communication progress. To address these problems, the paper proposes a high performance MPI-2 one-sided communication design over...
- Tags: Ohio State University, Communication, High-performance, InfiniBand, Networking
- White papers 2008-01-01
- A Portable Client/Server Communication Middleware Over SANs: Design and Performance Evaluation With Virtual Interface and InfiniBand
- This paper addresses the problem of using high performance SAN technologies to provide efficient communication support in client/server type of environments. The objective is to build a portable substrate which not only bridges the functionality gap between applications and SAN networks and preserves the performance of the underlying communication layer,...
- Tags: Client-server, Performance, Ohio State University, SAN, Middleware, Performance Evaluation, Storage Area Networks (SAN), InfiniBand, Storage Management, Storage, Performance Management, Hardware, Networking, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Performance of HPC Middleware Over InfiniBand WAN
- High performance interconnects such as InfiniBand IB has enabled large scale deployments of High Performance Computing HPC systems. High performance communication and IO middleware such as MPI and NFS over RDMA have also been redesigned to leverage the performance of these modern interconnects. This paper studies and analyzes the performance...
- Tags: Network File System, Performance, Ohio State University, Remote Direct Memory Access, InfiniBand, Performance Management, Remote Access, Networking, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- White papers 2007-12-01
- NASA gets SGI 2048-core Itanium 2 supercomputer
- I had a chance to speak with NASA and SGI at the SC07 supercomputing convention in Reno this week where I saw one of the biggest super computers in the world. Pictured left is a 1024-core version of the Altix 4700 and NASA just bought one with twice as many...
- Tags: SGI Altix, Processor, NASA, Supercomputer, Intel Itanium, Intel Itanium 2, Silicon Graphics Inc., SPECint_rate2006, SPECfp_rate2006, UNIX, Processors, InfiniBand, Operating Systems, Software, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Networking, George Ou
- Blog posts 2007-11-15
- IBM High Performance Computing for AIX Using InfiniBand
- This paper provides an overview and describes the components and performance of an HPC solution for AIX on POWER using InfiniBand as the cluster interconnects. The paper contains performance results for several communication benchmarks running on IBM System p servers with the IBM Host Channel Adapter driving InfiniBand switches, and...
- Tags: Performance, IBM AIX, High-performance Computing, IBM Corp., InfiniBand, Performance Management, Networking, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- White papers 2007-10-01
- The Sun Customer Ready Scalable Storage Cluster: High Performance Storage for High Performance Computing
- Much of the focus of High Performance Computing HPC has traditionally centered on CPU performance. However, as the computing requirements have grown, HPC clusters are demanding increasingly higher rates of aggregate data throughput. Today's clusters feature larger numbers of nodes with increased compute speeds. The higher clock rates and operations...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Storage, High-performance Computing, High-performance, Node, Cloud Computing, InfiniBand, Networking
- White papers 2007-07-01
- Cisco High-Performance Computing InfiniBand and Ethernet Networks and the IBM System Cluster 1350 Lowers Costs, Improves Systems and Halves ROI Period
- Cineca is a consortium of 31 universities plus the CNR the National Research Council and the Ministry of University and Research. Cineca has deployed Cisco HPC InfiniBand and Ethernet networks for the HPC cluster and as part of an IBM System Cluster 1350 solution, which includes more than 1,200 BladeCenter...
- Tags: Network, ROI, Cisco Systems Inc., IBM Corp., Cineca, InfiniBand, Ethernet, Networking
- Case studies 2007-06-26
- Comparing Cluster Interconnects: LS-DYNA Performance Benchmarks for Gigabit Ethernet and Cisco Double Data Rate InfiniBand
- The ability of a high-performance cluster HPC to positively affect application performance is one of the most important factors to consider in selecting a switching fabric type and interconnect. Though the characteristics of an application affect performance results, one also should consider node configuration, interconnect and switching fabric type and...
- Tags: Performance, Gigabit Ethernet, Cisco Systems Inc., Analysis, InfiniBand, Ethernet, Performance Management, Network Technology, Networking, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- White papers 2007-04-17
- Ethernet piggybacks on InfiniBand chip
- Ethernet piggybacks on InfiniBand chip20 Gigabit/s? Let's first have 10 gigas!I can't really see the interest of a 20 Gbit/s bandwidth over a standard 10 Gbit/s. Let's first have the standard implemented, and its cost will dramatically lower.For most devices, only 100 megabit:s is available with standard Ethernet cables, and...
- Tags: Network technology, chip, GB/s, Gigabit/s, Ethernet, InfiniBand
- Discussion threads 2007-03-31
- Experimental Evaluation of Infiniband Transport Over Local-and Wide-Area Networks
- High-performance file systems that span across supercomputers and storage systems are becoming increasingly important, as these resources are being dispersed both within the enterprise and across the wide-area. Infiniband transport has been proposed as a candidate to provide high-performance access over interconnects primarily within an enterprise. This paper presents an...
- Tags: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Network, WAN, InfiniBand, Networking
- White papers 2007-03-29
- TechNet Webcast: Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 Infrastructure and Applications (Level 200)
- Cluster performance profiling and tuning is a significant operational requirement during Windows Computer Cluster deployment and it is an activity that transcends both development and infrastructure skill sets. The presenter of this webcast demonstrates various tools on a cluster with InfiniBand interconnectivity and provides best practices for building performance toolsets...
- Tags: Microsoft Cluster Server, Webcast, Performance, Microsoft TechNet, Performance Management, Microsoft Windows, InfiniBand, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Operating Systems, Software, Networking
- Webcasts 2007-03-27
- I/O Virtualization Using Mellanox InfiniBand and Channel I/O Virtualization (CIOV) Technology
- When a physical server is virtualized, it results in multiple logical servers. Each logical server comprises a Virtual Machine VM that works over a virtualization intermediary software layer, also known as the Virtual Machine Monitor VMM or hypervisor. Each VM runs its own operating system called the guest OS and...
- Tags: Mellanox Technologies, I/O, InfiniBand, Server, Virtual Machine, Virtual Machine Monitor, Desktop Virtualization
- White papers 2007-01-26
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