Performance evaluation of RHiNET 2/NI: a network interface for distributed parallel computing systems
Kazuki Watanabe, T. Otsuka, Junichiro Tsuchiya, Hisayuki Amano, Hiroshi Harada, J. Yamamoto, Hiroaki Nishi, Tomohiro Kudoh · 2003
RHiNET-2/NI is a network interface for a parallel and distributed computing system with network connected PCs. The core of the network interface is an ASIC network controller chip Martini, which provides low-latency and large-bandwidth communication. Evaluation results show that it achieves almost full bandwidth of the 66MHz/64bit PCI bus, which is much larger than that of Myrinet-2000. The performance of a small prototype parallel system achieves almost linear speed up.