Published November 21, 2004 | Version v1
Journal article

First experience with the InfiniBand interconnect

  • 1. Institute for Scientific Computing (IWR), Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH, P.O. Box 36 40, 76021 Karlsruhe (Germany)

Description

A test cluster of dual Intel-Xeon processor server nodes has been equipped with 10 GBit/s InfiniBand interconnect. Capabilities of this new technique were tested and compared to Gigabit-Ethernet (GE) with respect to both High-Performance Computing (MPI-based parallel computing applications) and High-Throughput Computing (HTC). RFIO, a protocol for fast and efficient file transfers, has been ported to make immediate use of InfiniBand, utilizing the remote direct memory access (RDMA) capabilities of the InfiniBand hardware. The performance is compared to Gigabit-Ethernet

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.nima.2004.07.075;
PII
S0168-9002(04)01513-X;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Journal Volume
534
Journal Issue
1-2
Journal Page Range
p. 130-134
ISSN
0168-9002
CODEN
NIMAER

Conference

Title
9. international workshop on advanced computing and analysis techniques in physics research
Dates
1-5 Dec 2003
Place
Tsukuba (Japan)

INIS

Country of Publication
Netherlands
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
37028883
Subject category
S99: GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Conference
Descriptors DEI
COMPUTER CODES; COMPUTERS; DATA TRANSMISSION; DATA TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS; MEMORY MANAGEMENT; PERFORMANCE
Descriptors DEC
COMMUNICATIONS; DATA PROCESSING; PROCESSING

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Copyright (c) 2004 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.