Many analysts predict that 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) is ready to take off in HPC environments. 10GbE can meet low-latency and high bandwidth I/O requirements using familiar Ethernet networking leveraging Ethernet training, and management and debugging tools, which are ubiquitous in networking. Using efficient and cost-effective 10GbE to interconnect the blade servers, HPC clusters can take advantage of dense blade-server compute nodes to lower power consumption and reduce floor space.

1. Is 10 Gigabit Ethernet Ready for HPC?

2. HPC Interconnect Landscape April 30, 2011

3. The bigger picture for HPC top500 Mass Market IB GigE April 30, 2011 10Gig

4. HPC Forecast: Strong Growth Over Next Five Years ($ Millions) Source: IDC, 2008 April 30, 2011

14. PAM CRASH: Elapsed Time (sec) ‏ (Version 2008.0) 10GE 32% faster than 1G, equal to IB DDR, for 32 cores April 30, 2011

15. PAM CRASH: Speed Up (Version 2008.0) 10GE 70% faster than 1G, equal to IB DDR, for 64 cores April 30, 2011

16. VASP 4.6.28: Elapsed Time (sec) 10GE 4.25x faster than 1G, equal to IB DDR, for 32 cores Vienna Ab-initio Simulation Package Molecular Dynamics April 30, 2011

17. VASP 4.6.28: Speed Up 10GE 6.3x faster than 1G, almost equal to IB DDR, for 64 cores April 30, 2011

18. RADIOSS 9.0: Speed up (Version 9.0) 10GE 30% faster than 1G, equal to IB DDR, for 64 cores Finite Element Solver April 30, 2011