Performance Assessment of a Novel HPC Network Architecture Based on Fast Optical Switches with HPC Application Traffics
Fulong Yan, Hugo Meyer, Bitao Pan, Xuwei Xue, Xiaotao Guo, Nicola Calabretta · 2018
We numerically assess a novel low-latency HPC network based on fast optical switches (HiFOS) under multiple HPC application traffics. Compared with electrical Leaf-Spine HPC network, results show that HiFOS reduces up to 70.4% latency, 23.6% cost and 17.9% power consumption.