Micro-benchmark level performance comparison of high-speed cluster interconnects

Proceedings - 11th Symposium on High Performance Interconnects, HOTI 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 60-65

  Liu, Jiuxing ^a   Chandrasekaran, Balasubramanian ^a   Yu, Weikuan ^a   Wu, Jiesheng ^a   Buntinas, Darius ^a   Kini, Sushmitha ^a   Wyckoff, Peter ^b   Panda, Dhabaleswar K ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Bandwidth; Computer applications; Delay; Distributed computing; High performance computing; Information science; Performance evaluation; Personal communication networks; Supercomputers; Testing

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; BENCHMARKING; COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INFORMATION SCIENCE; MESSAGE PASSING; PERSONAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; SUPERCOMPUTERS; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; TESTING;

COMMUNICATION CAPABILITIES; COMPREHENSIVE PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; DELAY; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; PERFORMANCE COMPARISON; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; PERFORMANCE PARAMETERS; REMOTE DIRECT MEMORY ACCESS;

COMPUTER NETWORK PERFORMANCE EVALUATION;

EID: 84944047418     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CONECT.2003.1231479     Document Type: Conference Paper

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