Measuring Network Performance to Better Manage IT

The imperative of a trusted industry benchmark.

What no one has done well to date, is create a standard industry benchmark that measures network performance for communication patterns generated across a diverse set of HPC—and now AI workloads common to supercomputing. That is why the Global Performance and Congestion Network Test (GPCNeT) was created. Its designers—a collaboration between National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), and Cray, now part of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, believe this open source benchmark can fill an information gap, as HPC centers run increasingly complex and diverse workloads. A tested and trusted industry benchmark can serve to assist distributed computing system architects with information to build better systems for their organizations. Interconnect vendors will gain insight into customer requirements that might yield better network hardware and software over time.

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