Introductory: 10% Intermediate: 50% Advanced: 40%
SC Conference - Activity Details
S11: Designing High-End Computing Systems with InfiniBand and 10-Gigabit Ethernet
Presenters:| Dhabaleswar K. (DK) Panda (Ohio State University) |
| Pavan Balaji (Argonne National Laboratory) |
| Matthew Koop (Ohio State University) |
| Sunday, 01:30PM - 05:00PM |
| Room TBD |
As InfiniBand Architecture (IB) and 10-Gigabit Ethernet (10GE)
technologies mature in their support for next generation high-end
Computing (HEC) systems, more and more scientists, engineers and
researchers are becoming interested in learning about the details of
these technologies. This tutorial will provide details about the
advanced features of these emerging technologies and approaches to
design next generation systems with them. It will start with an
overview of the advanced hardware features and the software stack used
by these networks (with special emphasis on the emerging OpenFabrics
stack which uniformly encapsulates both IB and 10GE). Challenges in
designing different systems using these standards on multi-core
platforms for performance, scalability, portability and reliability
will be covered. Finally, case studies and experiences in designing
HPC clusters (with MPI-1 and MPI-2), Parallel File and Storage
Systems, Multi-tier Datacenters, and Virtualization schemes will be
presented together with the associated performance numbers and
comparisons.
| IEEE Computer Society / ACM | 2 0 Y E A R S - U N L E A S H I N G T H E P O W E R O F H P C |