Last week, Mellanox released the latest Microsoft WHQL certified Mellanox WinOF 2.0 (Windows OpenFabrics) drivers. This provides superior performance for low-latency, high-throughput clusters running on Microsoft Windows® HPC Server 2008. You may be asking yourself, how does this address my cluster computing needs? Does the Windows OFED stack released by Mellanox provide the same performance [...]
As previously suggested, I will review in this post a different application that is focused on converting protocols. QuickTransit, developed by a company called Transitive (recently acquired by IBM), is a cross-platform virtualization technology which allows applications that have been compiled for one operating system and processor to run on servers that use a different [...]
In case you missed it, IBM recently made an announcement regarding their WebSphere MQ Low Latency Messaging running over native InfiniBand enabled Blade Servers. The performance the Chiliean Stock Exchange is seeing is really impressive – 3000 orders per second with latency reduced by 100x of its current level. Latency performance is very critical for [...]
You don’t have to ask – vacation was awesome and as always not as long as we would like it to be. Now that we’ve taken the rust off our fingers, we’ve made progress with a bit more complex testbed. We’ve decided to look at the virtualization space and run our next application on top [...]
