Providing QoS in infiniband for regular and irregular topologies

Author

Alfaro, F.J. ; Sánchez, J.L. ; Orozco, Luis ; Duato, José

Author_Institution

Dept. de Informatica, Univ. de Castilla-La Mancha, Albacete, Spain

Volume

2

fYear

2003

fDate

4-7 May 2003

Firstpage

1079

Abstract

The infiniband architecture (IBA) is becoming an industry standard for communication between processing nodes and I/O devices or for interprocessor communication. It is being developed by the infinibandSM trade association (IBTA) to provide the levels of reliability, availability, performance, scalability, and quality of service (QoS) necessary for present and future server systems. In Alfaro et al., (2003) we proposed a new strategy to address these issues. We have evaluated this new strategy only for irregular topology networks Alfaro et al., (2003). In this paper we evaluate our proposal for regular topologies (hypercube and mesh) and we compare the results obtained. In this way, we want to study the influence of the topology on the QoS mechanisms.

Keywords

multiprocessor interconnection networks; network topology; quality of service; workstation clusters; I/O devices; NOWs; QoS mechanisms; arbitration; infiniband architecture; infinibandSM trade association; interprocessor communication; irregular topology networks; quality of service; server systems; Availability; Communication industry; Communication standards; Hypercubes; Network servers; Network topology; Proposals; Quality of service; Scalability; Telecommunication network reliability;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2003. IEEE CCECE 2003. Canadian Conference on

ISSN

0840-7789

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7781-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CCECE.2003.1226083

Filename

1226083