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Testbed Networks
Laboratory research facilities include a wide variety of networking
testbeds. A summary of these resources is as follows:
- 20 Gb/s Voltaire/Mellanox DDR InfiniBand, 40 server nodes in two clusters, one switch per cluster
- 10 Gb/s Quadrics QsNetII, 32 server nodes, one switch
- 10 Gb/s Voltaire InfiniBand 4x, 16 server nodes, one switch
- 10 Gigabit Ethernet, 1 node, two switches
- 8 Gb/s RapidIO, 2 endpoint nodes (hardware development boards)
- 5.3 Gb/s Scalable Coherent Interface, 18 server nodes (3D) and 16 server nodes (2D)
- 1.28 Gb/s Myrinet, 16 server nodes, two switches
- 1.25 Gb/s Giganet cLAN, 8 server nodes, one switch
- Gigabit Ethernet, 100+ server nodes, variety of switches
Many of the Ethernet switching resources were generously provided
by Nortel Networks and Cisco Systems. SCI resources
were generously provided by Dolphin
Interconnect Solutions. RapidIO resources (FPGA cores, development
boards) were generously provided by Xilinx. QsNetII resources
were generously discounted and portions donated by Quadrics.
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