IPSJ Digital Courier
Online ISSN : 1349-7456
ISSN-L : 1349-7456
Architecture and Performance of Dynamic Offloading Mechanism for Maestro2 Cluster Network
Keiichi AokiKoichi WadaHiroki MaruokaMasaaki Ono
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2007 Volume 3 Pages 683-692

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In this paper, an architecture of software environment to offload user-defined software modules to Maestro2 cluster network, named Maestro dynamic offloading mechanism (MDO), is described. Maestro2 is a high-performance network for clusters. The network interface and the switch of Maestro2 have a general-purpose processor tightly coupled with a dedicated communication hardware. MDO enables the users to offload software modules to both the network interface and the switch. MDO includes a wrapper library with which offload modules can be executed on a host machine without rewriting the program. The overhead and the effectiveness of MDO are evaluated by offloading collective communications.

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