You can find lots of info from this EE380 talk at Stanford: "Architectural tradeoffs in the Sea Micro SM 10000 Server" http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee380/Abstracts/100922.html
Video archive: http://ee380.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/videologger.php?target=100922-ee380-300.asx Rayson ================================= Open Grid Scheduler / Grid Engine http://gridscheduler.sourceforge.net/ Scalable Grid Engine Support Program http://www.scalablelogic.com/ On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Eugen Leitl <eu...@leitl.org> wrote: > ----- Forwarded message from Aaron Burt <aa...@bavariati.org> ----- > > From: Aaron Burt <aa...@bavariati.org> > Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2012 11:31:37 -0800 > To: f...@xent.com > Subject: Re: [FoRK] [Beowulf] seamicro fabric? > User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) > Reply-To: Friends of Rohit Khare <f...@xent.com> > > On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 05:23:02AM +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote: >> From: Mark Hahn <h...@mcmaster.ca> >> >> Has anyone found an informative description of the Seamicro fabric? > > I hope Mark has repeated his search; http://google.com?q=anil+rao+fabric > and http://google.com?q=seamicro+interconnect turn up lots of info. > > A 2011 PDF[1] at Seamicro sez, "It is a three-dimensional torus, with both > path redundancy and diversity. The fabric is FLIT-based and wormhole- > routed, with integrated virtual-channel technology to manage congestion, > and has a throughput of 1.2 Terabits/sec." > > Looks like proc boards use PCIe interconnects, like the old cPCI blades. > > The more interesting bit (to me) is the possibility raised in an older > article[2] that Rao and Lauterbach are thinking of turning their > interconnect into a datacenter-level fabric. Infiniband II, anyone? > > Remembering the days of physically separate frontend and I/O processors, > Aaron > > [1] > http://www.seamicro.com/sites/default/files/TO1_SM10000_Technology_Overview.pdf > [2] > http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2010/01/26/seamicro-more-than-just-low-power-servers/ > _______________________________________________ > FoRK mailing list > http://xent.com/mailman/listinfo/fork > > ----- End forwarded message ----- > -- > Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org > ______________________________________________________________ > ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org > 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf -- ================================================== Open Grid Scheduler - The Official Open Source Grid Engine http://gridscheduler.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
