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HPC in L3

HPC over UDP

2 min read

A few months ago, I posted an entry entitled “HPC in L3“.  My only point for that entry was to remove the “HPC in L3? That’s a terrible idea!” knee-jerk reaction that us old-timer HPC types have. I mention this because we released a free software update a few days ago for the Cisco usNIC […]

HPC in L3

2 min read

As an HPC old-timer, I’m used to thinking of HPC networks as large layer-2 (L2) subnets.  All HPC traffic (e.g., MPI traffic) is therefore designed to stay within a single L2 subnet. The next layer up — L3 — is the “networking” layer in the OSI network model; it adds more abstractions than are available […]