Performance Modeling of Subnet Management on Fat Tree InfiniBand Networks using OpenSM Export

@article{citeulike:3177096, abstract = {InfiniBand is becoming increasingly popular in the area of cluster computing due to its open standard and high performance. Fat Tree is a primary interconnection topology for building large scale InfiniBand clusters. Instead of using a shared bus approach, InfiniBand employs an arbitrary switched point-to-point topology. In order to manage the subnet, InfiniBand specifies a basic management infrastructure responsible for discovery, configuration and maintaining the active state of the network. In the literature, simulation studies have been done on irregular topologies to characterize the subnet management mechanism. However, there is no study to model subnet management mechanism on regular topologies using actual implementations. In this paper, we take up the challenge of modeling subnet management mechanism for Fat Tree InfiniBand networks using a popular subnet manager OpenSM. We present the timings for various subnet management phases namely topology discovery, path computation and path distribution for large scale fat tree InfiniBand subnets and present basic performance evaluation on small scale InfiniBand cluster. We verify our model with the basic set of results obtained, and present the results for the model by varying different parameters on Fat Trees.}, address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA}, author = {Vishnu, Abhinav and Mamidala, Amith R. and Jin, Hyun W. and Panda, Dhabaleswar K.}, citeulike-article-id = {3177096}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/IPDPS.2005.339}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/IPDPS.2005.339}, doi = {10.1109/IPDPS.2005.339}, issn = {1530-2075}, journal = {ipdps}, keywords = {ib-routing, opensm}, posted-at = {2008-08-31 21:42:30}, priority = {2}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society}, title = {Performance Modeling of Subnet Management on Fat Tree InfiniBand Networks using OpenSM}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/IPDPS.2005.339}, volume = {19}, year = {2005} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:3177096 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3177096 N2 - InfiniBand is becoming increasingly popular in the area of cluster computing due to its open standard and high performance. Fat Tree is a primary interconnection topology for building large scale InfiniBand clusters. Instead of using a shared bus approach, InfiniBand employs an arbitrary switched point-to-point topology. In order to manage the subnet, InfiniBand specifies a basic management infrastructure responsible for discovery, configuration and maintaining the active state of the network. In the literature, simulation studies have been done on irregular topologies to characterize the subnet management mechanism. However, there is no study to model subnet management mechanism on regular topologies using actual implementations. In this paper, we take up the challenge of modeling subnet management mechanism for Fat Tree InfiniBand networks using a popular subnet manager OpenSM. We present the timings for various subnet management phases namely topology discovery, path computation and path distribution for large scale fat tree InfiniBand subnets and present basic performance evaluation on small scale InfiniBand cluster. We verify our model with the basic set of results obtained, and present the results for the model by varying different parameters on Fat Trees. JF - ipdps SN - 1530-2075 AD - Los Alamitos, CA, USA TI - Performance Modeling of Subnet Management on Fat Tree InfiniBand Networks using OpenSM PB - IEEE Computer Society VL - 19 KW - ib-routing KW - opensm AU - Vishnu, Abhinav AU - Mamidala, Amith AU - Jin, Hyun AU - Panda, Dhabaleswar PY - 2005/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/IPDPS.2005.339 ER -