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The APEnet interconnect architecture in RED-SEA

Author: Andrea Biagioni, INFN One of the goals of RED-SEA is to tightly integrate network interfaces to different computing nodes, accelerators and workloads. We are addressing interfaces with ARM and RISC-V to prepare a number of EPI-related IPs for the new interconnect, but more generally we are designing an effective network interface for different workloads […]

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Canary: Congestion-aware in-network allreduce using dynamic trees

This paper prepared by ETH Zürich was accepted in journal Future Generation of Computer Systems. Highlights Abstract The allreduce operation is an essential building block for many distributed applications, ranging from the training of deep learning models to scientific computing. In an allreduce operation, data from multiple hosts is aggregated together and then broadcasted to each host participating in the operation. Allreduce […]

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RED-SEA’s 4th face-to-face meeting

10-11 October 2023 – Rome, Italy On 10 and 11 October 2023 the RED-SEA team will gather for its fourth face-to-face meeting in Rome, Italy, at the invitation of consortium member INFN.

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RED-SEA 4th F2F meeting in Rome

The fourth face to face meeting of the RED-SEA consortium is taking place in the eternal city – Rome – at the invitation of INFN. It is a great opportunity to welcome a few newcomers to the project – and for the “old hands” it is a pleasure to meet again! At 6 months of […]

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Proyecto RED-SEA: Resultados Intermedios

This paper prepared by Universitat Politècnica de València and Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha was accepted and presented at conference XXXIII Jornadas de Paralelismo held from 20 to 22 September 2023 in Ciudad Real (Spain). Note: the proceedings of this conference can only be accessed by conference attendees, but we obtained permission to publish the RED-SEA paper […]

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Extending LinkTest for BXI interconnects

Authors: Yannik Müller, Ilya Zhukov and Vitor Silva (Jülich Supercomputing Centre, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany) I. Introduction Efficient communication among processes is vital in the High-Performance Computing (HPC) world. To gain insights into the current network’s state and identify potential bottlenecks, a reliable network benchmarking tool is required. This is where LinkTest comes in – […]

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Founding of Ultra Ethernet Consortium

The founding of the Ultra Ethernet Consortium (UEC) was announced on 19 July 2023, and RED-SEA coordinator Eviden (an Atos business) is one of the founding members – the only European company. The UEC is bringing together leading companies for industry-wide cooperation to build a complete Ethernet-based communication stack architecture for high-performance networking. Artificial Intelligence […]

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ACACES 2023

9-15 July 2023 – Fiuggi, Italy The 19th International Summer School on Advanced Computer Architecture and Compilation for High-performance Embedded Systems – best known as ACACES 2023 was organised by HiPEAC in Fiuggi from 9 to 15 July. RED-SEA partner INFN presented a research poster entitled A priority management mechanism for congested HPC interconnection systems. […]

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FMI: Fast and Cheap Message Passing for Serverless Functions

This paper was accepted at ICS ’23, the 37th International Conference on Supercomputing that was held from 21 to 23 June in Orlando, Florida, USA. This paper was prepared by ETH Zürich in collaboration with OpenCore. Abstract Serverless functions provide elastic scaling and a fine-grained billing model, making Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) an attractive programming model. However, for distributed […]

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The SEA projects at ISC23

At ISC 2023 in Hamburg, from 22 to 24 May, the SEA projects were exhibiting together on the EuroHPC JU booth. If you missed us there, here is a taste of what we did – in 29 seconds!