PathScale InfiniPath: A First Look

  • Authors:
  • Lloyd Dickman;Greg Lindahl;Dave Olson;Jeff Rubin;Jeff Broughton

  • Affiliations:
  • PathScale, Inc.;PathScale, Inc.;PathScale, Inc.;PathScale, Inc.;PathScale, Inc.

  • Venue:
  • HOTI '05 Proceedings of the 13th Symposium on High Performance Interconnects
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Clusters are now a dominant model for high-capacity, scalable computing based on a commodity cost structure. This paper describes the first generation PathScale™ InfiniPath™ adapter — a single chip ASIC directly connecting HyperTransport™ attached processors, such as the AMD Opteron™, to the InfiniBand™ network fabric. In addition to providing ultra-low communications latency, the PathScale InfiniPath adapter achieves high bandwidth from very small to large message sizes. Its performance also scales on multi-core processor nodes. Use of the InfiniBand switching fabric permits high bandwidth to be realized at a commodity fabric price point.