ECMWF held the workshop for High-Performance Technology in Local Area Networks from 22 to 24 September 2004.
Description
The objective of the workshop was to bring together users and vendors of high-performance networking and interconnect technologies and share thoughts on the technology deployments, trends and future directions with European focus.
Programme
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Welcome Neil Storer (ECMWF) |
Session 1: User Applications requiring High-Performance Networking |
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High Performance Networking at ECMWF & HPN configuration and Load-balancing for Cluster Synchronization Dieter Niebel (ECMWF) |
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Infiniband and 10G in I/O-intensive farm computing & Network technologies for the LHC Computing Grid? Report on 10G and Infiniband as interconnects into our computing farm; Wide area transfer results with 10G Andras Horvath (CERN) |
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GridKa LAN, an LHC Tier-1 Centre Network & Network implementation; Roadmap for 2007/8 (start of LHC at CERN); Setting up of the 10G test bed, GridKa-CERN Bruno Hoeft (FZK Karlsruhe) |
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Data Intensive Applications and Networking & Overview of the TeraGrid and its applications Nathaniel Mendoza (SDSC) |
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Current Hardware (NEC SX-6, Cray Opteron Cluster); Future Hardware & Networks (NEC SX-6X with high-performance interconnect; PC-Cluster and interconnect; Integration on the file system level) Thomas Boenisch (HLRS Stuttgart) |
Session 2: High-Performance Interconnect |
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Advances in Myrinet Technology & Current Myrinet technology; outline of future offerings from Myricom Michael Rudgyard (Streamline) |
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Demo: Participants are Extreme, Force10, Foundry, Intel, LNXI Various |
Session 2: High-Performance Interconnect |
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InfiniBand update & The growth in numbers of installations, HPC and Enterprise Grid applications & installed "total solutions" John Asher (Voltaire) |
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Linux Networx - Infiniband Experiences & Past experiences, current status, and future innovations offered by InfiniBand interconnect technologies from an integrator's view. David Flynn (LNXI) |
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Advanced Switching (AS) Technology Update from the Intel Perspective & Host-bus (tree topology) technologies versus backplane fabric interconnects; AS Interconnect (based on PCI-Express), current status, and roadmap for the technology adoption and Intel's vision Mark Green (INTEL) |
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A Single-Chip 10Gbps Ethernet Switch and Its Switch Box XG800 Yukihiro Nakagawa, Fujitsu |
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The IBM Federation Switch & Architecture overview; performance comparisons against the "Colony" switch measured on the "other" UK HPS implementation - HPCx Jonathan Follows (IBM) |
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QsNetII - A High Performance Solution for Large Scale Commodity Computing & Network characteristics, recent developments, case study on integration of Quadrics based supercomputing clusters, futures John Taylor (Quadrics) |
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A survey of the Cray XD1 to the RedStorm system, with an overview of future interconnects for the Ranier system Dennis Abts (Cray) |
Session 3 (part 1): BUS, 10G adapters & media, TCP Offload Engines on Servers |
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IBM's 10GbE, iSCSI, other TCP/IP offload efforts and performance challenges for 10GbE Sivarama Kodukula (IBM) |
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"10 Gigabit Ethernet over Copper" - Latest Developments in Balanced Cabling Systems & Upcoming standards and technical challenges for manufacturers Kevin Anderson (KRONE) |
Session 4: FC, iSCSI & SAN (>1 Gigabit) |
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Evolution of Fibrechannel, 1/2/4/8/10 Gbps, compared with Ethernet; New development in iSCSI space (iSER), and comparison with TOE (TCP Offload Engine) solutions Walter Dey (Cisco) |
Session 5: 10G- Switch/Routers & Architecture |
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The reality of delivering very scalable high performance computing over low-cost 10GB and 1GB Ethernet solutions Joe Carlucci (3Com) |
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Terascale architecture and levels of performance, scalability and resiliency required for Grid and Cluster applications Adam Filby (Force10) |
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High Performance Interconnect Solutions Mark Danckert (Foundry) |
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High Performance Open Switch Architecture for Cluster applications & A high-speed switch architecture adaptable to changing network applications without downtime of critical services Martin van Schooten (Extreme) |
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Cisco Catalyst 6500: 10GE offering, switching fabric and linecard architecture overview Christopher Paggen (Cisco) |
Session 3 (part 2): BUS, 10G adapters & media, TCP Offload Engines on Servers |
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Intel's current view of TCP/IP offload Mark Godding (Intel) |
Session 6: Future of High-Performance Networking |
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Round-Table: Panellists briefly present their views & Round-Table: Discussion ECMWF |