Any news on Infiniband ?

[Markus Fischer]

What about CPU load ?

Is it PIO only or DMA ?

The OSU numbers dropped off right when hitting the L2 cache size ...

Markus

Anthony Skjellum wrote:

>Hi, we have 8.7us for zero byte messages in our MPI/Pro library.  I've
>heard a rumor that OSU is claiming 7.5 for their experimental MPI.
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>We've seen bandwidths of over 820Mbyte/s with Mellanox gear on page
>aligned data, with SWGC chipset, but not at 128 byte size transfers.
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>-Tony
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>On Wed, 26 Feb 2003 pascal.deveze at bull.net wrote:
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>>I'd like to get recent information on that new interconnect technology.
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>>I know that information can be found on different sites :
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>>http://infiniband.sourceforge.net
>>http://www.mellanox.com/technology/whitepapers.html
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>>But, I cannot see recent news and forecast. I'd like to know if
>>optimisations of hardware and software are planned and what are the
>>goals in term of :
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>>- Bandwidth : My last information is that current maximum is about 800 MBytes/s
>>                    for message size of 128 KBytes
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>>- Latency (message of 0 0byte) : My last information is that current minimum
>>                 is about 20 micros.
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>>- Milestone for optimisations. I do not have any information.
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>>- Hardware / Software optimizations: I do not have any information
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