The Cray SeaStar is a new network interface and router for the Cray Red Storm and XT3 supercomputer. The SeaStar was designed specifically to meet the performance and reliability...
Ron Brightwell, Kevin T. Pedretti, Keith D. Underw...
—Understanding the communication behavior and network resource usage of parallel applications is critical to achieving high performance and scalability on systems with tens of th...
Ron Brightwell, Kevin T. Pedretti, Kurt B. Ferreir...
The HPC Challenge (HPCC) benchmark suite and the Intel MPI Benchmark (IMB) are used to compare and evaluate the combined performance of processor, memory subsystem and interconnec...
Subhash Saini, Robert Ciotti, Brian T. N. Gunney, ...
Oak Ridge National Laboratory installed a 32 processor Cray X1 in March, 2003, and will have a 256 processor system installed by October, 2003. In this paper we describe our initi...
Thomas H. Dunigan, Mark R. Fahey, James B. White I...
Interconnect speeds currently surpass the abilities of today’s processors to satisfy their demands. The throughput rate provided by the network simply generates too much protoco...