Prototype of AM3: Active mapper and monitoring module for Myrinet environments

Seongbok Baik, C. S. Hood, W. D. Gropp

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Abstract

System area networks (SAN) have been developed to address the needs of computing clusters. Myricom's Myrinet architecture is one of the predominant technologies in this area. One of the key issues for SANs is fault-tolerant routing. Myrinet provides Mapper software to discover and maintain network topology. Myrinet's Mapper is centralized, susceptible to probe packet deadlock, and does not incorporate host monitoring. We propose an alternative mapper called AM3. AM3 is hierarchical, reduces the number of probe packets, and incorporates host monitoring. We have implemented a prototype version of AM3 on Chiba City, Argonne National Lab's 512 CPU Linux cluster.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings - LCN 2002
Subtitle of host publication27th Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages703-707
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)0769515916
DOIs
StatePublished - 2002
Externally publishedYes
Event27th Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks, LCN 2002 - Tampa, United States
Duration: Nov 6 2002Nov 8 2002

Publication series

NameProceedings - Conference on Local Computer Networks, LCN
Volume2002-January

Other

Other27th Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks, LCN 2002
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityTampa
Period11/6/0211/8/02

Keywords

  • Computer architecture
  • Computer networks
  • Fault tolerance
  • Monitoring
  • Probes
  • Prototypes
  • Routing
  • Software maintenance
  • Software prototyping
  • Storage area networks

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Hardware and Architecture

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