High Performance Computing with Harness over InfiniBand

Conference · Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2009

OSTI ID:948066

Valentini, Alessandro ^[1]; Di Biagio, Christian ^[2]; Batino, Fabrizio ^[2]; Pennella, Guido ^[2]; Palma, Fabrizio ^[1]; Engelmann, Christian ^[3]

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1. University of Rome 'Sapienza'
2. MBDA Italia SPA, Rome, Italy
3. ORNL

Harness is an adaptable and plug-in-based middleware framework able to support distributed parallel computing. By now, it is based on the Ethernet protocol which cannot guarantee high performance throughput and real time (determinism) performance. During last years, both, the research and industry environments have developed new network architectures (InfiniBand, Myrinet, iWARP, etc.) to avoid those limits. This paper concerns the integration between Harness and InfiniBand focusing on two solutions: IP over InfiniBand (IPoIB) and Socket Direct Protocol (SDP) technology. They allow the Harness middleware to take advantage of the enhanced features provided by the InfiniBand Architecture.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC)
• DOE Contract Number: DE-AC05-00OR22725
• OSTI ID: 948066
• Resource Relation: Conference: 17th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed, and network-based Processing (PDP) 2009, Weimar, Germany, 20090318, 20090320
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

97 MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING
99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS//MATHEMATICS, COMPUTING, AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
H CODES
PARALLEL PROCESSING
I CODES
PERFORMANCE