Overview of Maestro2

Cluster computers have been gaining popularity as a high performance computing environment for parallel/distributed applications. Commonly, the network hardware and protocols used to build a cluster are based on WAN or LAN technologies, which add overheads to guarantee reliability in wide-area communications. However the communication patterns of parallel applications running on clusters require low latency and high throughput. Thus, there is a disparity between the performance obtained by using conventional network and protocol technologies and the one required by clusters. To address this issue, we have been developing a high-performance network optimized for cluster computing, called Maestro2. In the Scientific Papers section and Technical resouces section you can find  the description of the overall architecture of Maestro2 and performance evaluation results.