PROGRAMMING THE INFINIBAND NETWORK ARCHITECTURE FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE MESSAGE PASSING SYSTEMS

16th ISCA International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems 2003, PDCS 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 391-398

  Velusamy, Vijay ^a,b   Rao, Changzheng ^a   Chakravarthi, Srigurunath ^b   Neelamegam, Jothi ^b   Chen, Weiyi ^b   Verma, Sanjay ^b   Skjellum, Anthony ^a,b  

^a MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Verari Systems Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

InfiniBand; Message Passing Interface; Middleware; RDMA; Verbs

Indexed keywords

MESSAGE PASSING; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; SPECIFICATIONS;

INFINIBAND; INFINIBAND ARCHITECTURE; INFINIBAND NETWORKS; INTER-SERVER COMMUNICATIONS; MESSAGE PASSING INTERFACE; MESSAGE PASSING SYSTEMS; MESSAGE-PASSING; PERFORMANCE; RDMA; VERB;

MIDDLEWARE;

EID: 84942813297     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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