| Publisher | Cisco Systems | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Format | 339.5KB PDF | Date added | 01 Nov 2005 |
| Topics | Ethernet | ||
| Downloads | 4 | ||
Adoption of commodity compute clusters has grown beyond the traditional high-performance compute market and is entering the enterprise data center. Efficiently designing cluster interconnect networks requires network professionals and cluster architects to select the appropriate technology. This decision is complicated by the fact that many applications have varying requirements and performance of a particular application can vary depending on computational datasets and inherent application scalability. This paper presents application performance measurements using Fluent, a popular Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) application, and three Cisco technology-based interconnect design options which are standard on-the-motherboard Gigabit Ethernet network interface cards (NICs), Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA)-enhanced PCI-X Gigabit Ethernet NICs (RNICs) and infiniBand RDMA-enabled PCI Express Host Channel Adapters (HCAs).
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