Performance evaluation of the Sun Fire Link SMP clusters

Authors:
Ying Qian;Ahmad Afsahi;Nathan R. Fredrickson;Reza Zamani
Affiliations:
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, K7L 3N6, Canada.;Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, K7L 3N6, Canada.;Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, K7L 3N6, Canada.;Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, K7L 3N6, Canada.
Venue:
International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking
Year:
2006

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Abstract

The interconnection networks and the communication system software are critical in achieving high performance in clusters. Sun Fire Link interconnect is a memory-based interconnect, where the Sun MPI uses the Remote Shared Memory (RSM) model for its user-level inter-node messaging. This paper presents the overall architecture of the Sun Fire Link and its messaging layer. We provide an in-depth performance evaluation of a Sun Fire Link cluster at the RSM, MPI, and application layers. The MPI ping-pong latency and bandwidth are five microseconds and 660 MB/s, respectively. In general, the Sun Fire Link cluster performs relatively well in most cases.