Overview of memory channel network for PCI

Authors:
R. Gillett;M. Collins;D. Pimm
Affiliations:
-;-;-
Venue:
COMPCON '96 Proceedings of the 41st IEEE International Computer Conference
Year:
1996

Citing 4
Cited 14

VAXcluster: a closely-coupled distributed system

ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
Experience with Parallel Computing on the AN2 Network

IPPS '96 Proceedings of the 10th International Parallel Processing Symposium
Digital's clusters and scientific parallel applications

COMPCON '96 Proceedings of the 41st IEEE International Computer Conference
Overview of Digital UNIX Cluster Architecture

COMPCON '96 Proceedings of the 41st IEEE International Computer Conference

Shasta: a low overhead, software-only approach for supporting fine-grain shared memory

Proceedings of the seventh international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems
Reducing Communication Latency with Path Multiplexing in Optically Interconnected Multiprocessor Systems

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
Evaluation of hardware write propagation support for next-generation shared virtual memory clusters

ICS '98 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Supercomputing
UTLB: a mechanism for address translation on network interfaces

Proceedings of the eighth international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems
Using network interface support to avoid asynchronous protocol processing in shared virtual memory systems

ISCA '99 Proceedings of the 26th annual international symposium on Computer architecture
Fast cluster failover using virtual memory-mapped communication

ICS '99 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Supercomputing
User-space communication: a quantitative study

SC '98 Proceedings of the 1998 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
Experiences with VI communication for database storage

ISCA '02 Proceedings of the 29th annual international symposium on Computer architecture
Using the Memory Channel Network

IEEE Micro
CableS: Thread Control and Memory System Extensions for Shared Virtual Memory Clusters

WOMPAT '01 Proceedings of the International Workshop on OpenMP Applications and Tools: OpenMP Shared Memory Parallel Programming
miNI: reducing network interface memory requirements with dynamic handle lookup

ICS '03 Proceedings of the 17th annual international conference on Supercomputing
Shared virtual memory clusters: bridging the cost-performance gap between SMPs and hardware DSM systems

Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
VI-Attached Database Storage

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
Efficient remote block-level I/O over an RDMA-capable NIC

Proceedings of the 20th annual international conference on Supercomputing

Quantified Score

Hi-index	0.00

Visualization

Abstract

The parallel performance of a cluster is often limited by performance compromises in conventional networks. This paper discusses the benefits of a more specialized networking approach and the resulting design of a low-cost, high-performance interconnect optimized specifically to enhance both the parallel performance and high-availability aspects of a cluster. This interconnect, Memory Channel Network for PCI, attaches to the industry-standard PCI bus found in most computers. The first-generation product, running on a standard Digital UNIX Cluster, provides cluster communication latency and overhead improvements of more than 50 and 1000 times respectively, compared to conventional networks.