A Simulation Study of the Virtual Interface Architecture

Conference · Tue May 18 00:00:00 EDT 1999

OSTI ID:7147

Hu, Tan Chang; Stans, Leonard; Tarman, Thomas D

The Virtual Interface Architecture (VIA) is an emerging standard for interconnecting commodity computing nodes into a cluster. Since VIA protocol. operations are implemented outside the operating system kernel (often, entirely in hardware), VIA transfers can be performed at very low delay, high throughput, and minimal CPU overhead. This makes VIA ideal when building large clusters that perform complex simulations of physical events, However, the scaling properties of VIA are less clear. This paper describes the design and results of a simulation model developed in OPNET to investigate VIA's ability to scale to clusters of> 1000 nodes.

• Research Organization: Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), Albuquerque, NM, and Livermore, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AC04-94AL85000
• OSTI ID: 7147
• Report Number(s): SAND99-0893C; ON: DE00007147
• Resource Relation: Conference: OPNETWORK '99; Washington, DC; 08/30-09/03/1999
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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Equipment Interfaces
Simulation