Sixth International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Applications and Technologies (PDCAT'05)
Evaluation of Network Interface Controller on DIMMnet-2 Prototype Board
Dalian, China
December 05-December 08
ISBN: 0-7695-2405-2
By recent performance improvement of interconnection networks for a PC cluster, standard I/O bus which connects network interface becomes the performance bottleneck. DIMMnet is a network interface which can solve the problem by using the memory bus instead of PCI bus or other I/O buses. The second generation network interface DIMMnet-2 can be connected with DDR-SDRAM slot by using the indirect accessing to memory and buffers. Although the current board is a prototype using an FPGA, the latency for 8 Bytes data transfer is only 0.441?s.
Citation:
Akira Kitamura, Yasuo Miyabe, Tetsu Izawa, Tomotaka Miyashiro, Konosuke Watanabe, Tomohiro Otsuka, Hideharu Amano, Yoshihiro Hamada, Noboru Tanabe, Hironori Nakajo, "Evaluation of Network Interface Controller on DIMMnet-2 Prototype Board," pdcat, pp.778-780, Sixth International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Applications and Technologies (PDCAT'05), 2005