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LANS Informal Seminar: Pavan Balaji
April 14, 2010 @ 15:00 CDT
Seminar Title: InfiniBand on the Cloud
Speaker: Pavan Balaji, MCS
Date/Time: 2010-04-14 15:00
Location: Bldg 240, Conference Center
Description:
InfiniBand (IB) network architecture was initially proposed for system area (specifically data-center) networking. Given its rise in popularity over the past decade or so, researchers have started studying its relevance in other environments such as distributed computing systems, virtual machines, and other traditionally-Ethernet-based environments. Based on advances in these
areas, people are now considering IB as a potential networking technology to be used in ‘cloud systems’, which would use a combination of these enhancements. In this talk, I’ll describe the status of IB in a number of environments including: (a) wide-area lambda grids, (b) performance and security in virtual machines, and (c) converged Ethernet/IB technologies that allow IB to be used in environments that have traditionally been dominated by Ethernet-only communication. In short, I’ll discuss aspects related to the relevance of IB on cloud computing systems.