The mission requirements of Sandia National Laboratories demands powerful but economic computing capabilities. Sandia has been working to address these needs by exploring advanced architectures for cluster computing. InfiniBand, a newly emerged commodity multi-vendor open-standard network interconnect, has proven to have the characteristics of a high-performance cluster interconnect, namely high bandwidth, low latency, low CPU overhead, and remote direct memory access RDMA).
Our current InfiniBand research focuses on large-scale Linux visualization clusters for the Red Storm system, capacity computing, and scalable system and parallel software development.