SLIBNet : Server Load Balancing for InfiniBand Networks
- Today, InfiniBand is an evolving high speed interconnect technology to build high performance computing clusters, that achieve top 10 rankings in the current top 500 of the worldwide fastest supercomputers. Network interfaces (called host channel adapters) provide transport layer services over connections and datagrams in reliable or unreliable manner. Additionally, InfiniBand supports remote direct memory access (RDMA) primitives that allow for one- sided communication. Using server load balancing together with a high performance cluster makes it possible to build a fast, scalable, and reliable service infrastructure. We have designed and implemented a scalable load balancer for InfiniBand clusters called SLIBNet. Our investigations show that the InfiniBand architecture offers features which perfectly support load balancing. We want to thank the Megware Computer GmbH for providing us an InfiniBand switch to realize a server load balancing testbed.
| Author details: | Sven Friedrich, Lars Schneidenbach, Bettina SchnorORCiDGND |
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| Publication type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first publication: | 2005 |
| Publication year: | 2005 |
| Release date: | 2017/03/25 |
| Source: | Technical Report of the University of Potsdam. - (2005), 12 |
| Organizational units: | Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Informatik und Computational Science |
| Peer review: | Nicht ermittelbar |
| Institution name at the time of the publication: | Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Informatik |
