[san-tech][02000] "Lustre in a WAN Environment", HPI-DC 2009, 09/08/31

Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 03:08:46 +0900
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2009年 8月 31日に開催された
  High Performance Interconnects for Distributed Computing (HPI-DC)
  http://www.cercs.gatech.edu/hpidc2009/program.htm
での報告です。

"Lustre in a WAN Environment"
 Jim Hofmann, Naval Research Laboratory
  http://www.cercs.gatech.edu/hpidc2009/slides/hofmann.pdf
Naval Research Laboratoryは米海軍の研究所です。
Large Data JCTD
  http://www.largedata.net/index.php
 "To Build a Global "Large Data" Network Infrastructure to Rapidly
  Access and Produce Knowledge from the Best Information available
  fused from Federated, Distributed sensors and digital media assets"
参加組織：
  USSTRATCOM: United States Strategic Command
  NGA: National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
  NRL; U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
  DISA: Defense Information Systems Agency
  INSCOM: United States Army Intelligence and Security Command
  DUSD(AS&C): Deputy Under-Secretary of Defense for Advanced Systems and Concepts Rapid Fielding Directorate
  DIA: Defense Intelligence Agency


会議自体は、拠点間 InfiBand通信の報告がメインです。例えば、
"Wide-Area InfiniBand RDMA: Experimental Evaluation", ORNL
"Scheduling Strategies for HPC as a Service (HPCaaS)", Mellanox
"RDMA over Ethernet - A Preliminary Study", Ohio-State
"On Optimizing I/O Through InfiniBand RDMA for Commodity Clusters"

さらに Invited Industry Talk:
"InfiniBand System Area Networks"
  David Southwell, President & CEO, Obsidian Strategics Inc
  http://www.cercs.gatech.edu/hpidc2009/slides/obsidian.pdf


Obsidian Strategics Inc.
  http://www.obsidianresearch.com/

今まで拠点間 InfiBandアプライアンスといえば、カナダのObsidianだけ
でしたが、ライバルが登場してました：
"Bay Microsystems’ ABExR 2020 Achieves InfiniBand Compliance and
 Interoperability", Jan. 20, 2009
  http://www.baymicrosystems.com/news_and_events/press_releases/20090120_ABEx2020AchievesInfiniBandCompliance.php
ABEx 2020
  http://www.baymicrosystems.com/products/network-appliances/abex-2020.php
  http://www.baymicrosystems.com/assets/files/ABEx_2020.pdf
Products > IBEx InfiniBand Product Family (2011/06/13)
  http://www.baymicrosystems.com/products_infiniband.php

Obsidianのような InfiniBand Range Extension専業メーカではありません
Products > IBEx Ethernet Product Family (2011/06/13)
  http://www.baymicrosystems.com/products_ethernet.php
Bay Microsystems, Inc
  http://www.baymicrosystems.com/


つぎの報告で両者を検証しています：
"Wide-Area InfiniBand RDMA: Experimental Evaluation",
 Nageswara S. V. Rao, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  http://www.cercs.gatech.edu/hpidc2009/slides/rao.pdf

Nageswara S. V. Rao, UT-Battelle Corporate Fellow, ORNL
  http://www.csm.ornl.gov/~nrao/
以下のプロジェクトの Co_PIです
DOE UltraSceince Net
  http://www.csm.ornl.gov/ultranet/
NSF CHEETAH: Circuit-switched High-speed End-to-End Transport ArcHitecture
  http://www.ece.virginia.edu/cheetah/
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