NDLI: Design and implementation of CC-NUMA card II for SCI-based PC clustering

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Soo-Cheol Oh Sang-Hwa Chung Hankook Jang
Copyright Year	2002
Description	Author affiliation: Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Pusan Nat. Univ., South Korea (Soo-Cheol Oh; Sang-Hwa Chung; Hankook Jang)
Abstract	It is extremely important to minimize network access time when constructing a high-performance PC cluster system. For an SCI-based PC cluster it is possible to reduce the network access time by maintaining network cache in each cluster node. This paper presents the second version CC-NUMA card (CC-NUMA card II) that utilizes network cache for SCI-based PC clustering. The CC-NUMA card II is directly plugged into the PCI slot of each node, and contains shared memory, network cache, a shared memory control module and network control module. The network cache is maintained for shared memory on the PCI bus of cluster nodes. The coherency mechanism between network cache and shared memory is based on the IEEE SCI standard. In previous research, the first version CC-NUMA card (CC-NUMA card I) was developed. The CC-NUMA card I adopting Dolphin's PCI-SCI card as the network control module caused overhead in exchanging data between the remote nodes. In this paper, the overhead is removed by developing the CC-NUMA card II that combines the shared memory control module and network control module in a single card. Throughout the experiment with the SPLASH-2 benchmark suite, the CC-NUMA card II based PC cluster shows better performance than a NUMA system based on Dolphin's PCI-SCI card.
Sponsorship	IEEE Comput. Soc. Task Force on Cluster Comput. (TFCC)
Starting Page	145
Ending Page	151
File Size	327239
Page Count	7
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0769520669
DOI	10.1109/CLUSTR.2002.1137739
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2002-09-26
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Computer networks Ethernet networks Read-write memory Maintenance engineering Software libraries Electronic commerce Web server Web and internet services Costs High-speed networks
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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