Performance Evaluation and Simulation on Myrinet-based Packet Router

Since the Internet has been exploited in almost every field, network traffic itself and the performance of network devices became main issues to provide qualified services. So a lot of attempts to develop better machines, routers and web servers etc., have been made to serve better network performance. Recently there has been a growing interest in supporting extensibility in network switching elements, which include routers. This proposes the usage of general-purpose programmable platform carefully. Through utilizing off-the-self PCs and fast network interfaces, there have been attempts to make network components like routers. Even if there are several pros and cons when using general-purpose platform, its extensibility and programmability space can accept diverse attempts to come up with general routers. The Suez project can be an example of them. Suez is to develop router using a Myrinet-Based cluster system. In the Suez, through isolating the core router functions from the host, it can be beneficial to the performance of network routing. It does minimize the host level computation when the processes for packet forwarding in the router are performed. In this paper, we will design simulation model of Suez, which consists of two nodes-ingress and egress using SES/workbench.