Fujitsu has succeeded in using Infiniband to connect together run
an application on a cluster of Linux-based servers.
The cluster linked 16 of the company's Primergy dual-processor
servers - a total of 32 processors - using Infiniband, a relatively
new interconnection system aimed at making cluster building
easier.
The cluster was controlled by SCore, a software application
developed as part of the Japanese government's Real World Computing
Project (RWCP), and was running pre-release versions of Intel's
Infiniband system. Together these components produced a maximum
data transfer rate of 2.5Gbps.
The system will get its public debut later this week at a
high-performance computing seminar in Japan.
Earlier this year NEC announced the opening of an engineering
centre for Linux-based PC cluster systems in Tokyo. The centre uses
NEC Linux servers and SCore to control the cluster, but the
interconnection between the machines uses Ethernet or Myrinet,
which have slower maximum data transfer rates.