Reservoir Simulation Made Simpler and More Efficient with 10 Gigabit Ethernet

ManualsBrandsIntel ManualsOtherIntel 10 Gigabit CX4 Dual Port Server Adapter

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10GbE iWARP

10GbE iWARP versus GbE

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Fabric consolidation.

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IP-based management.

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Native routing capabilities.

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Existing switches, appliances, and

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10GbE iWARP Delivers Equivalent

Performance to 40Gb InfiniBand

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Conguration

Details Common to

All Three Fabrics ›

• Intel® Xeon® processors 5670 at 3.3 GHz

(two-way servers, six cores per processor)

• 16 GB RAM

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux* 5.5

• ECLIPSE* 2010.2 Reservoir Engineering Software

• OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED) 1.5.2

• Intel® Message Passing Interface (MPI) 4

Conguration

Details Specic to

Individual Fabrics ›

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

• HP ProCurve* 2824

Ethernet switch

• Intel® 82575EB

Gigabit Ethernet

Controller

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

• Arista 7124S

10GbE switch

• NetEffect™

10GbE Serve

Cluster Adapters

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• Mellanox MTS3600

InniBand switch

• Mellanox ConnectX*

QDR (40Gb)

InniBand Host

Channel Adapters

Table 1

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