Architectural and performance evaluation of GIgaNet and MyRiNet interconnects on clusters of small-scale SMP servers

Proceedings of the International Conference on Supercomputing

Volumn 2000-November, Issue , 2000, Pages

  Hsieh, Jenwei ^a   Leng, Tau ^a   Mashayekhi, Victor ^a   Rooholamini, Reza ^a  

^a DELL INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Clusters of SMP servers; High speed interconnects; Message passing interface; Performance evaluation

Indexed keywords

ASYNCHRONOUS TRANSFER MODE; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); PACKET SWITCHING; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

ARCHITECTURAL EVALUATION; CLUSTER OF SYMMETRIC MULTIPLE PROCESSOR SERVER; HIGH-SPEED INTERCONNECTS; LOW LATENCY; MESSAGE PASSING INTERFACE; MESSAGE-PASSING; MULTIPLE PROCESSORS; MYRINET; PERFORMANCES EVALUATION; SYMMETRICS;

MESSAGE PASSING;

EID: 33745154700     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SC.2000.10027     Document Type: Conference Paper

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