Design, Deployment and Bench of a Large Infiniband HPC Cluster
M. Bozzo-Rey, Mark Jeanson, Minh-Nghia Nguyen, C. Gauthier, M. Barrette, Philippe Vachon, K. Gaven-Venet, Hui Zhong Lu, S. Allen, Alain Veilleux · 2006
This paper provides an overview of the Universite de Sherbrooke (UdeS) experience, in terms of design, deployment and bench of a large InfiniBand HPC cluster. In particular, attention is focused on tuning MVAPICH and the linpack benchmark in order to achieve 83.9% of the theoretical peak, which is usally reserved for high end proprietary clusters.