Performance considerations for network switch fabrics on Linux clusters

Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems

Volumn 16, Issue , 2004, Pages 150-156

  Sokolowski, Philip J ^a   Grosu, Daniel ^a  

^a Wayne State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Cluster computing; Message passing; Performance evaluation

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER COMPUTING; COMPUTATION NODES; ETHERNET; MESSAGE-PASSING; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION;

BANDWIDTH; BENCHMARKING; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; INTERCONNECTION NETWORKS; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); LIBRARIES; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PERFORMANCE; PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

SWITCHING NETWORKS;

EID: 11844256939     PISSN: 10272658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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