A preliminary analysis of the InfiniPath and XD1 network interfaces

20th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS 2006

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Brightwell, Ron ^a   Doerfler, Doug ^a   Underwood, Keith D ^a  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; NETWORK PROTOCOLS;

HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING (HPC); HIGH-PERFORMANCE NETWORKING; INFINIBAND (IB) SWITCHES; PROTOCOL PROCESSING;

INTERFACES (COMPUTER);

EID: 33847164590     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IPDPS.2006.1639568     Document Type: Conference Paper

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