Dr. Markus Fischer

Projects

 

While individual solutions are not of general use, there are basic software packages which are a vehicle for multiple HPC applications.

 

PVM for Windows

PVM is a popular message passing environment which has the support for heterogeneous environments and dynamic process management as its key features. While fine grain applications benefit from its successor MPI, PVM is still an enabling technology. Advances in traditional networks also bring more bandwidth to PVM when using 10Gbps Ethernet for example.

 

WinRSHD

A Remote Execution Facility for Windows Operating Systems. This software allows processes to run on a remote machine in a secure manner. Applications so far have been remote image processing using Desktop machines which otherwise would have been idle. Rendering of movies is another field of application. Additional uses are Excel spread processing, Gene Sequencing, Backup and mathmetical simulations. Contact us to see if you can also make use of idle Windows machines in your office.
http://www.winrshd.com

 

Winsock Direct Proxy for System Area Networks

The Socket API is not only the most transparent interface for data exchanges - reading this information already means you have been using it - but it is also used for closely coupled applications. With Direct Sockets you can map those calls natively to a system area network and achieve much lower latency with less CPU load.

 

We developed, tested and validated a Network Direct Service Provider for a well known low latency 10GbE vendor.

 

Network Direct Provider for Windows

Learn how you can program your application to a new API which you can transparently move on different networks. In it's current HPC offering Microsoft has released Windows HPC Server 2008 which is using the Network Direct (ND) Provider as an interface in MS MPI. RDMA techniques allow for zero copy data transfers with lowest CPU overhead.

 

We developed, tested and validated a Network Direct Service Provider for a well known low latency 10GbE vendor.

-- Performance results showed lowest latency with less than one third in comparison with other vendors.

-- Line rate was achieved in Bandwidth performance measurements.

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