A Quantitative Study on the Communication Performance of Myrinet Network Interfaces
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This paper presents a series of experiments for evaluating the communication performance of Myrinet network adaptors. In particular, this paper studies the impact that arises from the interactions between the Myrinet network adaptors and host computer systems on communications performance. We report and analyze the communication performances of GM, the low-level messaging API for Myrinet, and other network protocols such as IP and MPI that are built on top of GM. All the performance results are obtained using a Pentium-based cluster running the Linux operating systems and interconnected by the Myricom’s LANai9 (M3M-PCI64B) host adapters. ABSTRACT........................................................................................................................ 1
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