基于MRINET的VIA设计.pptVIP

MyVIA: High Performance VIA design for Myrinet Chen Yu /~chenyu/ Tsinghua University, P.R.China Overview Existed VIA implementations Berkeley VIA is based on Myrinet hardware, and could run on Solaris, Linux 2.2.x and Windows NT. Modular VIA could run on Linux and supported some high speed Ethernet card, such as Packet Engines GNIC-I/II Gigabit Ethernet cards, etc. Other projects include IBM FirmVIA, GigaNet, VI-GM, etc. Overview VIA is a Industry Driven Standard – promoted by Intel, Compaq and Microsoft VIA is thin software layer, OS bypass and asynchronous processed by intelligent NIC Unified API for application programmers (VIPL) Well defined Application-Hardware Interaction VIA is key component of Infiniband technology VI Developers Forum (VIDF) – Stewardship of current standard. Research Background We developed a high-perfomance computer cluster in Tsinghua University. 36 nodes, 4 Intel xeon CPUS 1GB mem in one node, Cluster is connected by 2Gb/s Myrinet, 100Mb/s ethernet and 1Gb/s TH-net VIA communication software subsystem is running on the three hardware network. Our VIA implemantation for Myrinet is MyVIA Tsinghua Computer Cluster Architecture of MyVIA User Agent (UA) is user-oriented VIA library: It provides VIA program interface for users, including data sending, data receiving, communication polling and so on. NIC Agent (NA) is NIC-oriented agent component: It manages VIA resources in NIC and the DMA sending or receiving, etc. NA is located in Myrinet NIC. Kernel Agent (KA): It runs as a device driver. The main functions that KA provided include: VI management, Memory Register and Protection, Device initiation and contact, Network and Connection Management Architecture of MyVIA Architecture of MyVIA Implementations of MyVIA Virtual-to-Physical Memory Address Translation TLB is located in host memory and host CPU executes address translation. Registered Memory Manage Table (RMMT) is used to keep memory registration information (su