Any news on Infiniband ?

Markus Fischer markus at markus-fischer.de
Wed Feb 26 12:04:39 PST 2003


What about CPU load ?

Is it PIO only or DMA ?

The OSU numbers dropped off right when hitting the L2 cache size ...

Markus

Anthony Skjellum wrote:

>Hi, we have 8.7us for zero byte messages in our MPI/Pro library.  I've
>heard a rumor that OSU is claiming 7.5 for their experimental MPI.
>
>We've seen bandwidths of over 820Mbyte/s with Mellanox gear on page
>aligned data, with SWGC chipset, but not at 128 byte size transfers.
>
>-Tony
>
>On Wed, 26 Feb 2003 pascal.deveze at bull.net wrote:
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>>I'd like to get recent information on that new interconnect technology.
>>
>>I know that information can be found on different sites :
>>
>>http://infiniband.sourceforge.net
>>http://www.mellanox.com/technology/whitepapers.html
>>
>>But, I cannot see recent news and forecast. I'd like to know if
>>optimisations of hardware and software are planned and what are the
>>goals in term of :
>>
>>- Bandwidth : My last information is that current maximum is about 800 MBytes/s
>>                    for message size of 128 KBytes
>>
>>- Latency (message of 0 0byte) : My last information is that current minimum
>>                 is about 20 micros.
>>
>>- Milestone for optimisations. I do not have any information.
>>
>>- Hardware / Software optimizations: I do not have any information
>>
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