Developed by the APE group, APENet is a new high speed, low latency, 3-dimensional interconnect architecture optimized for PC clusters running LQCD-like numerical applications. The hardware implementation is based on a single PCI-X 133MHz network interface card hosting six indipendent bi-directional channels with a peak bandwidth of 676 MB/s each direction. We discuss preliminary benchmark results showing exciting performances similar or better than those found in high-end commercial network systems.
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@article{arxiv.hep-lat/0409071,
title = {APENet: LQCD clusters a la APE},
author = {R. Ammendola and M. Guagnelli and G. Mazza and F. Palombi and R. Petronzio and D. Rossetti and A. Salamon and P. Vicini},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-lat/0409071},
year = {2009}
}