MultiEdge: An Edge-based Communication Subsystem for Scalable Commodity Servers

Sven Karlsson; Stavros Passas; George Kotsis; Angelos Bilas

doi:10.1109/IPDPS.2007.370218

MultiEdge: An Edge-based Communication Subsystem for Scalable Commodity Servers

Sven Karlsson, Stavros Passas, George Kotsis, Angelos Bilas

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Abstract

At the core of contemporary high performance computer systems is the communication infrastructure. For this reason, there has been a lot of work on providing low-latency, high-bandwidth communication subsystems for clusters. In this paper, we introduce MultiEdge, a connection oriented communication system designed for high-speed commodity hardware. MultiEdge provides support for end-to-end flow -control, ordering, and reliable transmission. It transparently supports multiple physical links within a single connection. We use MultiEdge to examine the behavior of edge-based protocols using both micro-benchmarks and real-life shared memory applications. Our results show that MultiEdge is able to deliver about 88% of the nominal link throughput with a single 10-GBit/s link and more than 95% with multiple 1-GBit/s links. Our application results show that performing all of the communication protocol at the edge does not seem to cause any degradation in performance.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, 2007
Publisher	IEEE
Publication date	2007
ISBN (Print)	1-4244-0910-1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/IPDPS.2007.370218
Publication status	Published - 2007
Externally published	Yes
Event	21st IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium - Long Beach, United States Duration: 26 Mar 2007 → 30 Mar 2007 Conference number: 21 http://www.ipdps.org/ipdps2007/

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Conference	21st IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium
Number	21
Country	United States
City	Long Beach
Period	26/03/2007 → 30/03/2007
Internet address	http://www.ipdps.org/ipdps2007/

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