HPC network stack on Arm

Date and Time: 
Wednesday 2018 Apr 4th
Location: 
CG Auditorium
Speaker: 
Pavel Shamis

Applications, programming languages, and libraries that leverage sophisticated network hardware capabilities have a natural advantage when used in today's and tomorrow's high-performance and data center computer environments. Modern RDMA based network interconnects provides incredibly rich functionality (RDMA, Atomics, OS-bypass, etc.) that enable low-latency and high-bandwidth communication services. The functionality is supported by a variety of interconnect technologies such as InfiniBand, RoCE, iWARP, Intel OPA, Cray's Aries/Gemini, and others. Over the last decade, the HPC community has developed variety user/kernel level protocols and libraries that enable a variety of high-performance applications over RDMA interconnects including MPI, SHMEM, UPC, etc. With the emerging availability HPC solutions based on ARM architecture, it is important to understand how ARM integrates with the RDMA hardware and HPC network software stack. In this talk, we will overview ARM architecture and system software stack. We will discuss how ARM CPU interacts with network devices and accelerators. In addition, we will share our experience in enabling RDMA software stack and one-sided communication libraries (Open UCX, OpenSHMEM/SHMEM) on ARM and share preliminary evaluation results.

Speaker Description: 

Pavel Shamis is Principal Research Engineer at ARM. He specializes in High Performance Computing (HPC), Message Parsing Interface (MPI), SHMEM (API for Parallel Programming), Partitioned Global Address Space (PGAS), Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA), and Infiniband.

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