APENet: LQCD clusters a la APE
Ammendola, R, Guagnelli, M, Mazza, G, Filippo Palombi, Petronzio, R, Rossetti, D, Salamon, A, Vicini, P · CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2004
Developed by the APE group, APENet is a new high speed, low latency, 3-dimensional interconnect architecture optimized for PC clusters running LQCD-like numerical applications. The hardware implementation is based on a single PCI-X 133MHz network interface card hosting six indipendent bi-directional channels with a peak bandwidth of 676 MB/s each direction. We discuss preliminary benchmark results showing exciting performances similar or better than those found in high-end commercial network systems.