Maestro-Link: A High Performance Interconnect for PC Cluster
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چکیده
Maestro is a distributed shared memory system currently being developed. In this paper, an architecture of the high performance network interface of Maestro is presented. Maestro consists of multiple PC(Personal Computer)s and dedicated network hardware for high performance message passing and maintaining cache coherency. IEEE1394, a high performance serial link, is used in the physical layer of Maestro network. The network interface is developed using FPGA(Field Programmable Gate Array)s. A network latency and a bandwidth between the network interface and PC are measured and discussed.
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