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Welcome to the Network-Based Computing (NBC) Laboratory
at the Computer Science and Engineering
Department!!
The objectives of the research group are as follows:
- Proposing new designs for high performance network-based
computing systems by taking advantages of modern networking
technologies and computing systems
- Developing better middleware, API, and programming environments
so that modern network-based computing applications
can be developed and implemented
in a scalable and high performance manner
- Performing the above research in an integrated manner
(by taking systems, networking, and applications into account)
- Focusing on experimental computer science research
Many state-of-the-art and exciting
research projects are being
carried out in the group.
One of the internationally recognized
project in the group is to investigate
the potential of InfiniBand and other emerging RDMA-enabled
networking technologies for designing
High Performance and Scalable Communication and I/O Subsystems
for Clusters with multi-thousand nodes.
More details on this project are available on our
MPI Over InfiniBand Project Site.
The following modern interconnects are
currently being used in the laboratory
together with off-the-shelf
computing boxes (single/dual/quad Pentium, Opteron, G5 systems
and multi-core variations)
and active/intelligent Network Interface Cards (NICs):
- InfiniBand
- Quadrics
- Myrinet
- Gigabit Ethernet
- 10GigE (with iWARP)
Research in the laboratory is supported by funding from the
following organizations:
- National Science Foundation
- Department of Energy
- Sandia National Laboratory
- Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- National Library of Medicine
- Ameritech
- Cisco Systems
- IBM Research
- Intel
- Linux Networx
- Mellanox
- QLogic
- Network Appliance
- Sun Microsystems
- Ohio Board of Regents
- Ohio State University
Equipment donations from the following companies
have been instrumental in carrying out state-of-the-art
research in the laboratory:
Advanced Clustering,
AMD,
Apple,
Appro,
Chelsio,
Dell,
Fujitsu,
Fulcrum,
IBM,
Intel,
Mellanox,
Microway,
PathScale,
Silverstorm,
and Sun Microsystems
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