Impact of configurable network features in ATOLL

ATOLL (Atomic Low Latency) is a new high speed interconnect solution for cluster computing. It is equipped with a fully integrated network on a chip, which is currently a unique feature. Therefore hostinterface, network interface and switch come as one, integrated, single solution. Moreover, the network interface card allows for dynamic re-configuration during runtime. This includes dynamic profiling as well as dynamic (wormhole) routing. Last but not least, one hostinterface can be set up to allow for zero copy data transfers. This paper describes configurable network features in ATOLL and how applications and software libraries can benefit from them.