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 |
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Title of host publication | IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, 2007 |
Publisher | IEEE |
Publication date | 2007 |
ISBN (Print) | 1-4244-0910-1 |
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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/ |
Conference
Conference | 21st IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium |
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Number | 21 |
Country | United States |
City | Long Beach |
Period | 26/03/2007 → 30/03/2007 |
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