Title :
Performance evaluation of RHiNET 2/NI: a network interface for distributed parallel computing systems
Author :
Watanabe, Konosuke ; Otsuka, Tomohiro ; Tsuchiya, Jun-Ichiro ; Amano, Hideharu ; Harada, Hiroshi ; Yamamoto, Junji ; Nishi, Hiroaki ; Kudoh, Tomohiro
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Keio Univ., Yokohama, Japan
Abstract :
RHiNET-2/NI is a network interface for a parallel and distributed computing system with network connected PCs. The core of the network interface is an ASIC network controller chip Martini, which provides low-latency and large-bandwidth communication. Evaluation results show that it achieves almost full bandwidth of the 66MHz/64bit PCI bus, which is much larger than that of Myrinet-2000. The performance of a small prototype parallel system achieves almost linear speed up.
Keywords :
application specific integrated circuits; network interfaces; parallel processing; performance evaluation; workstation clusters; ASIC network controller; PC Cluster; RHiNET-2/NI performance evaluation; distributed parallel computing system; high performance network; network interface; Bandwidth; Communication switching; Computer networks; Concurrent computing; Distributed computing; Network interfaces; Parallel processing; Personal communication networks; Routing; Switches;
Conference_Titel :
Cluster Computing and the Grid, 2003. Proceedings. CCGrid 2003. 3rd IEEE/ACM International Symposium on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-1919-9
DOI :
10.1109/CCGRID.2003.1199383
