GigaE PM: a high performance communication facility using a Gigabit Ethernet |
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Authors: | Shinji Sumimoto Hiroshi Tezuka Atsushi Hori Hiroshi Harada Toshiyuki Takahashi Yutaka Ishikawa |
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Affiliation: | (1) Real World Computing Partnership, Parallel and Distributed System Software Laboratory, Tsukuba Mitsui Building 16F, 1-6-1 Takezono Tsukuba-shi, 305-0032 Ibaraki, Japan |
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Abstract: | A high performance communication facility, called theGigaE PM, has been designed and implemented for parallel applications on clusters of computers using a Gigabit Ethernet. The GigaE
PM provides not only a reliable high bandwidth and low latency communication, but also supports existing network protocols
such as TCP/IP. A reliable communication mechanism for a parallel application is implemented on the firmware on a NIC while
existing network protocols are handled by an operating system kernel. A prototype system has been implemented using an Essential
Communications Gigabit Ethernet card. The performance results show that a 58.3 μs round trip time for a four byte user message,
and 56.7 MBytes/sec bandwidth for a 1,468 byte message have been achieved on Intel Pentium II 400 MHz PCs. We have implemented
MPICH-PM on top of the GigaE PM, and evaluated the NAS parallel benchmark performance. The results show that the IS class
S performance on the GigaE PM is 1.8 times faster than that on TCP/IP.
Shinji Sumimoto: He is a Senior Researcher of Parallel and Distributed System Software Laboratory at Real World Computing Partnership, JAPAN.
He received BS degree in electrical engineering from Doshisha University. His research interest include parallel and distributed
systems, real-time systems, and high performance communication facilities. He is a member of Information Processing Society
of Japan.
Hiroshi Tezuka: He is a Senior Researcher of Parallel and Distributed System Software Laboratory at Real World Computing Partnership, JAPAN.
His research interests include real-time systems and operating system kernel. He is a member of the Information Processing
Society of Japan, and Japan Society for Software Science and Technology.
Atsushi Hori, Ph.D.: He is a Senior Researcher of Parallel and Distributed System Software Laboratory at Real World Computing Partnership, JAPAN.
His current research interests include parallel operating system. He received B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering
from Waseda University, and received Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo. He worked as a researcher in Mitsubishi Research
Institute from 1981 to 1992.
Hiroshi Harada: He is a Senior Researcher of Parallel and Distributed System Software Laboratory at Real World Computing Partnership, JAPAN.
His research interests include distributed/parallel systems and distributed shared memory. He received BS degree in physics
from Science University of Tokyo. He is a member of ACM and Information Processing Society of Japan.
Toshiyuki Takahashi: He is a Researcher at Real World Computing Partnership since 1998. He received his B.S. and M.S. from the Department of
Information Sciences of Science University of Tokyo in 1993 and 1995. He was a student of the Information Science Department
of the University of Tokyo from 1995 to 1998. His current interests are in meta-level architecture for programming languages
and high-performance software technologies. He is a member of Information Processing Society of Japan.
Yutaka Ishikawa, Ph.D.: He is the chief of Parallel and Distributed System Software Laboratory at Real World Computing Partnership, JAPAN. He is
currently temporary retirement from Electrotechnical Laboratory, MITI. His research interests include distributed/parallel
systems, object-oriented programming languages, and real-time systems. He received the B.S., M.S. and Ph.D degrees in electrical
engineering from Keio University. He is a member of the IEEE Computer Society, ACM, Information Processing Society of Japan,
and Japan Society for Software Science and Technology. |
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Keywords: | Distributed and Paralell Computing High Performance Communication Gigabit Ethernet Commodity Network |
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