InfiniBand Architecture in High Performance Computing Clusters

by Brad Benton (InfiniSwitch)

Tuesday 6 May 2003, 14:00 → 15:00 Europe/Zurich

500/1-001 - Main Auditorium (CERN)

The InfiniBand Architecture (IBA) is a new interconnect technology whose purpose is to provide a scalable switched fabric for both server-to-server and server-to-I/O communication. In addition to low latency and high bandwidth, IBA supports many new mechanisms and services, such as multiple transport services, send-recv & memory-to-memory semantics, and prioritised data flows. This presentation will provide an in-depth look at the InfiniBand Architecture. In addition, features specific to the high performance computing community will be covered, such as current MPI implementations over IB, as well as the latest benchmarking results comparing InfiniBand, Myrinet and Quadrics interconnect technologies.
Biography
Brad Benton is senior architect for the InfiniSwitch Corporation's enterprise fabric management software products.
Benton has more than 20 years of industry experience, including eight in architecture positions. Most recently Benton served as Senior Technical Relationship Manager at Lane15 Software. Prior to this Benton was Development Manager at Infoglide Software where he was responsible for defining technical direction, product definition, and system performance. Before Infoglide he held senior positions at Pervasive Software and Tandem Computers.