High-Performance Cluster for Biomedical Research Using 10 Gigabit Ethernet iWARP Fabric
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
For more information on the technologies, products, and implementations described in this paper, see the following resources:
10 Gb iWARP-enabled NetEffect™ Ethernet Server Cluster Adapters:
www.intel.com/Products/Server/Adapters/Server-Cluster/Server-Cluster-overview.htm
Arista switches: www.aristanetworks.com
Dell PowerEdge* R610 servers:
www.dell.com/us/en/business/servers/server-poweredge-r610/pd.aspx?red=server-poweredge-r610&cs=04&s=bsd
HPL benchmark Web site: www.netlib.org/benchmark/hpl/
For more information about iWARP, see the paper, “Understanding iWARP: Eliminating
Overhead and Latency in multi-Gb Ethernet Networks,” which is available at:
http://download.intel.com/support/network/adapter/pro100/sb/understanding_iwarp.pdf.
Conclusion
The lab results with a synthetic benchmark described in this paper suggest substantial value of this cluster topology for future
research. These ndings show that using mainstream Ethernet technology for compute clusters can now provide very favorable
performance, efciency, and scalability. Taking advantage of iWARP with NetEffect 10GbE Server Cluster Adapters allows RDMA
trafc to be passed effectively over Ethernet fabric. Future work as 10GbE products and technology continue to evolve, including
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