Performance Evaluation of Distributed Computing over Heterogeneous Networks

RWAPI is a low-level communication interface designed for clusters of PCs. It has been developed to provide performance to higher applications on a wide variety of architectures. We implemented RWAPI on top of the modular software architecture called GRWA. RWAPI supports Ethernet, InfiniBand and Myrinet network interconnects. This paper introduces RWAPI and the design of its network component on top of both InfiniBand and Myrinet interconnects. We obtained a very low latency and high throughput compared to MPI results.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: HPCC
• Authors: Ouissem Ben Fredj, Éric Renault
• Keywords: Distributed And Parallel Computing, HPCC 2007, Low-level Communication Interface, Myrinet Interconnects, Myrinet Network Interconnects