Comparison of High Performance Network Options: EDR InfiniBand vs.100Gb RDMA Capable Ethernet

Technical Report · Mon Aug 08 00:00:00 EDT 2016

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1304696· OSTI ID:1304696

Kachelmeier, Luke Anthony ^[1]; Van Wig, Faith Virginia ^[2]; Erickson, Kari Natania ^[3]

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1. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM (United States)
2. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); Missouri Univ. of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO (United States)
3. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); New Mexico Inst. of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM (United States)

These are the slides for a presentation at the HPC Mini Showcase. This is a comparison of two different high performance network options: EDR InfiniBand and 100Gb RDMA capable ethernet. The conclusion of this comparison is the following: there is good potential, as shown with the direct results; 100Gb technology is too new and not standardized, thus deployment effort is complex for both options; different companies are not necessarily compatible; if you want 100Gb/s, you must get it all from one place.

• Research Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AC52-06NA25396
• OSTI ID: 1304696
• Report Number(s): LA-UR-16-26126
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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