Trapeze Project Overview

Fastest Myrinet messaging system

Bandwidth, Large-message latency

• NIC firmware [Yocum97,98]
  Adaptive Message Pipelining
  
• Host library linked into kernel

Designed for kernel-kernel communication in clusters.

• GMS (global network memory) [Feeley95,96], [Voelker98]
• “Cheating the I/O Bottleneck” [Anderson 98]
• Slice (scalable filesystem)

[Anderson 99]

• TCP/IP driver

PCI bus

User applications

Slice File System

Slice RPC

File/VM system

Socket layer

TCP/IP stack

Trapeze net driver

Raw Trapeze message layer

Trapeze NIC (firmware)

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