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26 Dell HPC Omni-Path Fabric: Supported Architecture and Application Study June 2016
6 Conclusion and Future Work
The Intel
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Omni-Path Architecture is a new option available for low-latency, high-bandwidth cluster fabrics.
The micro benchmark results prove that OPA is an ideal candidate for HPC workloads. Good application
scalability is demonstrated with NAMD, WRF, STAR-CCM+, and ANSYS Fluent. Users of Intel
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Omni-Path
benefit from the freely available fabric monitoring and managing tools such as Fabric Manager GUI, chassis
viewer, and opafastfabric.
As the drivers and software ecosystem of OPA mature further, we plan on evaluating additional fabric
features such as dynamic lane scaling, packet integrity protection and traffic flow optimization, as well as
continuing to evaluate the performance of various applications using Intel
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Omni-Path and Intel
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Broadwell
Processors on Dell Servers.