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http://dx.doi.org/10.3745/KIPSTA.2003.10A.4.389

Design and Implementation of an InfiniBand System Interconnect for High-Performance Cluster Systems  

Mo, Sang-Man (조선대학교 인터넷공학부)
Park, Kyung (한국전자통신연구원 컴퓨터구조연구팀)
Kim, Sung-Nam (한국전자통신연구원 컴퓨터구조연구팀)
Kim, Myung-Jun (한국전자통신연구원 컴퓨터소프트웨어연구소)
Im, Ki-Wook (선문대학교 지식정보산업공학과)
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The KIPS Transactions:PartA / v.10A, no.4, 2003 , pp. 389-396 More about this Journal
Abstract
InfiniBand technology is being accepted as the future system interconnect to serve as the high-end enterprise fabric for cluster computing. This paper presents the design and implementation of the InfiniBand system interconnect, focusing on an InfiniBand host channel adapter (HCA) based on dual ARM9 processor cores The HCA is an SoC tailed KinCA which connects a host node onto the InfiniBand network both in hardware and in software. Since the ARM9 processor core does not provide necessary features for multiprocessor configuration, novel inter-processor communication and interrupt mechanisms between the two processors were designed and embedded within the KinCA chip. Kinch was fabricated as a 564-pin enhanced BGA (Bail Grid Array) device using 0.18${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$ CMOS technology Mounted on host nodes, it provides 10 Gbps outbound and inbound channels for transmit and receive, respectively, resulting in a high-performance cluster system.
Keywords
SAN; Cluster System; System Interconnect; InfiniBand; Channel Adapter; Multiprocessor;
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