Analysis of an IA-64 Based High Performance VIA Implementation

Feng Yang (), Zhihui Du, Ziyu Zhu and Ruichun Tang
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Feng Yang: Tsinghua University, Department of Computer Science and Technology

A chapter in Current Trends in High Performance Computing and Its Applications, 2005, pp 563-568 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Virtual Interface Architecture (VIA), which establishes a communication model with low latency and high bandwidth, is the industry standard for user level communication. In this paper, THVIA64, a hardware support VIA implementation based on IA-64 platform, is analyzed from three aspects, compatibility, stability and performance. Compatibility test shows how well it supports both for traditional network protocol, such as TCP/IP and VIA. Stability test measures how well it can transfer a large number of packages for both small and large data within a very long test time. The performance data are tested and compared on two different kinds of networks, Gigabyte Ethernet and THNET64. The test results show that THVIA64 is a compatible, stable and high performance implementation of VIA based on IA-64 platform for cluster computing.

Keywords: ULN (User Level Network); KLN (Kernel Level Network); THVIA; IA-64; Cluster (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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DOI: 10.1007/3-540-27912-1_78

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