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2006 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Scalable Ethernet Clos-Switches
verfasst von : Norbert Eicker, Thomas Lippert
Erschienen in: Euro-Par 2006 Parallel Processing
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Scalability of Cluster-Computers utilizing Gigabit-Ethernet as an interconnect is limited by the unavailability of scalable switches that provide full bisectional bandwidth. Clos’ idea of connecting small crossbar-switches to a large, non-blocking crossbar – wide-spread in the field of high-performance networks – is not applicable in a straight-forward manner to Ethernet fabrics. This paper presents techniques necessary to implement such large crossbar-switches based on available Gigabit-Ethernet technology. We point out the ability to build Gigabit-Ethernet crossbar switches of up to 1152 ports providing full bisectional bandwidth. The cost of our configuration is at about €125 per port, with an observed latency of less than 10
μ
sec. We were able to find a bi-directional point-to-point throughput of 210 MB/s using the ParaStation Cluster middle-ware [2].