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http://dx.doi.org/10.7236/JIIBC.2021.21.6.91

Performance Evaluation of Interconnection Network in Microservers  

Oh, Myeong-Hoon (Dept. of Computer Engineering, Honam University)
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The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication / v.21, no.6, 2021 , pp. 91-97 More about this Journal
Abstract
A microserver is a type of a computing server, in which two or more CPU nodes are implemented on a separate computing board, and a plurality of computing boards are integrated on a main board. In building a cluster system, the microserver has advantages in several points such as energy efficiency, area occupied, and ease of management compared to the existing method of mounting legacy servers in multiple racks. In addition, since the microserver uses a fast interconnection network between CPU nodes, performance improvement for data transfers is expected. The proposed microserver can mount a total of 16 computing boards with 4 CPU nodes on the main board, and uses Serial-RapidIO (SRIO) as an interconnection network. In order to analyze the performance of the proposed microserver in terms of the interconnection network which is a core performance issue of the microserver, we compare and quantify the performance of commercial microservers. As a result of the test, it showed up to about 7 times higher bandwidth improvement when transmitting data using the interconnection network. In addition, with CloudSuite benchmark programs used in actual cloud computing, maximum 60% reduction in execution time was obtained compared to commercial microservers with similar CPU performance specification.
Keywords
microserver; SRIO; interconnection network; maximum bandwidth; CloudSuite;
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