March 2009

Conference Paper

High Performance Computing with Harness over InfiniBand

By:
Valentini, Alessandro; Di Biagio, Christian; Batino, Fabrizio; Pennella, Guido; Palma, Fabrizio; Engelmann, Christian
Page Number:
151-154
Book Title:
Proceedings of the 17th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed, and network-based Processing (PDP) 2009
Publication Date:
March 2009
Publisher Location:
Proceedings of the 17th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distribu, Los Alamitos, California, United States of America
Conference Name:
17th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed, and network-based Processing (PDP) 2009
Conference Location:
Weimar, Germany

Abstract

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.

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