Sixth IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (CLUSTER'04) San Diego, CA, USA September 20-September 23 ISBN: 0-7803-8694-9
Summary form only given. We present APENet, a new high speed, low latency, 3-dimensional interconnect architecture optimized for PC clusters running LQCD-like numerical applications. The hardware implementation is based on a single PCI-X 133MHz network interface card hosting six independent bidirectional channels with a peak bandwidth of 676 MB/s each direction and measured latency less than 10 /spl mu/s. The internal packet switching capabilities of the network card allows up to three couple of links simultaneously active. The current software environment, based on Linux, is made of a low-level library and a high-level application library. An MPI implementation and a network device driver are being actively developed.
Citation:
R. Ammendola, M. Guagnelli, G. Mazza, F. Palombi, R. Petronzio, D. Rossetti, A. Salamon, P. Vicini, "APENet: a high speed, low latency 3D interconnect network," cluster, pp.481, Sixth IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (CLUSTER'04), 2004 Usage of this product signifies your acceptance of the Terms of Use. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||