InfiniBand White Papers
- The Case for InfiniBand over Ethernet (April 2008) (
日本語)
There are two competing technologies for IPC – InfiniBand and iWARP (based on 10GigE). If one were to apply the same business and technical logic behind the initial success of FCoE, one would conclude that InfiniBand over Ethernet (IBoE) makes the most sense. Here is why.
- Importance of Unified I/O in
VMware® ESX Servers (March 2008) ( 日本語)
When it comes to unifying I/O on the servers, there are only two options – 10GigE NICs or InfiniBand HCAs. What should you deploy, especially in VMware ESX server environments?
- Accelerating Automotive Design
with InfiniBand (February 2008)
CAE simulation and analysis are highly sophisticated applications which enable engineers to get insight into complex phenomena and to virtually investigate physical behavior. In order to produce the best results possible
these simulation solutions require high-performance compute platforms. In this paper we investigate the optimum usage of high-performance clusters for maximum efficiency and productivity, for CAE applications, and for automotive design in particular.
- Cut I/O Power and Cost while Boosting
Server Performance (February 2008)
I/O technology plays a key role in the reduction of space and power in the data center, reducing TCO, and enhancing data center agility.
- InfiniBand Software and Protocol White Paper (December 2007)
The InfiniBand software stack is designed ground up to enable ease of application deployment.
IP and TCP socket applications can avail of InfiniBand performance without requiring any change
to existing applications that run over Ethernet.
- InfiniBand for Storage Applications (December 2007)
Storage solutions can benefit today from the price,
performance and high availability advantage of Mellanox’s
industry-standard InfiniBand products.
- InfiniBand and SAN performance (June 2007)
InfiniBand’s I/O unification capabilities and higher throughput makes it useful for such applications, reducing costs by about 50 percent. In virtual server environments, InfiniBand has shown it can deliver native SAN performance (1,500 MBps) from virtual machines, and scale almost linearly across multiple virtual machines.
- Using RDMA to increase processing performance (April 2007)
Applications are increasing the demand for CPU processing performance and the amount of data being transferred between subsystems. Offloading data movement to I/O hardware increases the amount of CPU resources available for these applications, boosting the system’s performance.
- Optimum Connectivity in the Multi-core Environment (March 2007)
Mulit-core is changing everything. What do you think the effect mulit-core has on the interconnect requirements for your cluster? Hint: More cores need more interconnnect.
- Consolidating Network Fabrics to Streamline Data Center Connectivity (February 2007)
Cost and performance issues are pushing developers to seek convergence of interconnects in data centers. Both 10 Gigabit Ethernet and InfiniBand appear to have potential, but the demands are militating against Fibre Channel.
- I/O Virtualization Using Mellanox InfiniBand and Channel I/O Virtualization (CIOV) Technology (January 2007)
Server virtualization technologies offer many benefits that enhance agility of data centers to adapt to changing business needs, while reducing total cost of ownership.
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Single-Points of Performance (December 2006)
The most common approach for comparing between different interconnect solutions is the “single-points” approach.
- Real Application Performance and Beyond (December 2006)
The interconnect bandwidth and latency have traditionally been used as two metrics for assessing the performance of the system’s interconnect fabric. However, these two metrics are typically not sufficient to determine the performance of real world applications.
- Weather Research and Forecast (WRF) Model Port to Windows:
Preliminary Report (November 2006)
The Weather Research and Forecast (WRF) project is a multi-year/multi-institution collaboration to develop a next generation regional forecast model and data assimilation system for operational numerical weather prediction (NWP) and atmospheric research.
- Why Compromise? - A discussion on RDMA versus Send/Receive and the difference between interconnect and application semantics (November 2006)
A discussion on RDMA versus Send/Receive and the difference
between interconnect and application semantics.
- Architecture and Implementation of Sockets Direct Protocol in Windows (May 2006)
Sockets Direct Protocol (SDP) enables socket based applications to transparently utilize the RDMA and transport offload capabilities of the InfiniBand fabric.
- Scale up: Building a State-of-the Art Enterprise Supercomputer (May 2006)
Building a state-of-the-art enterprise supercomputer requires a partnership among vendors that supply commodity parts.
- InfiniBand in the Enterprise Data Center (April 2006)
InfiniBand offers a compelling value proposition to IT managers who value data center agility and lowest total cost of ownership.
- Scaling 10Gb/s Clusters at Wire-Speed (April 2006)
Data center and high performance computing clusters that cannot compromise on scalable and deterministic performance need the ability to construct large node count non-blocking switch configurations.
- Can Memory-Less Network Adapters Benefit Next-Generation InfiniBand
Systems? (December 2005)
Memory-less adapters allow more efficient use of overall system memory and show practically no performance impact (less than 0.1%) for the NAS Parallel Benchmarks on 8 processes.
- InfiniBand -- Industry Standard Data Center Fabric is Ready for Prime Time (December 2005)
Server and storage clusters benefit today from industry-standard InfiniBand’s
price, performance, stability, and widely available software leading to a
convergence in the data center.
- Deploying Quality of Service and Congestion Control in InfiniBand-based Data Center Networks (November 2005)
The InfiniBand architecture defined by IBTA includes novel Quality of Service and Congestion Control features that are tailored perfectly to the needs of Data Center Networks.
- Transparently Achieving Superior Socket Performance Using Zero Copy Socket Direct Protocol over 20Gb/s InfiniBand Links (September 2005)
An implementation of Zero Copy support for synchronous send()/recv() socket calls, that uses the remote DMA capability of InfiniBand for SDP data transfers.
- Zero Copy Sockets Direct Protocol over InfiniBand ––Preliminary Implementation and Performance Analysis (August 2005)
This paper presents the major architectural aspects of the SDP protocol, the ZCopy implementation, and a preliminary performance evaluation.
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