Hot-spot avoidance with multi-pathing over InfiniBand: An MPI perspective

Proceedings - Seventh IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid, CCGrid 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 479-486

  Vishnu, A ^a   Koop, M ^a   Moody, A ^b   Mamidala, A R ^a   Narravula, S ^a   Panda, D K ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Clusters; Congestion control; Hot spot; InfiniBand; MPI

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONGESTION CONTROL (COMMUNICATION); INTERCONNECTION NETWORKS; TOPOLOGY; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

COMMUNICATION PATTERNS; INFINIBAND CLUSTERS; MULTI-PATHING;

SUPERCOMPUTERS;

EID: 34548299840     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CCGRID.2007.60     Document Type: Conference Paper

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