High performance communication using a commodity network for cluster systems

Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing

Volumn 2000-January, Issue , 2000, Pages 139-146

  Sumimoto, S ^a   Tezuka, H ^a   Hori, A ^a   Harada, H ^a   Takahashi, T ^a   Ishikawa, Y ^a  

^a Real World Computing Partnership   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bandwidth; Delay; Ethernet networks; Hardware; Kernel; Linux; Network interfaces; Protocols; TCPIP; Telecommunication network reliability

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ETHERNET; FLOW CONTROL; HARDWARE; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); INTERNET PROTOCOLS; LINUX; NEGATIVE IMPEDANCE CONVERTERS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PACKET SWITCHING; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DATA HANDLING; INTERNET; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; PERSONAL COMPUTERS;

DELAY; ETHERNET NETWORKS; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMMUNICATION; KERNEL; NAS PARALLEL BENCHMARKS; NETWORK DEVICE DRIVERS; NETWORK INTERFACE CARDS; TCPIP;

BENCHMARKING; NETWORK PROTOCOLS;

CLUSTER SYSTEMS; COMMODITY NETWORK; ETHERNET; INTERNET PROTOCOL; LINUX KERNEL; TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL;

EID: 0033684525     PISSN: 10828907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HPDC.2000.868644     Document Type: Conference Paper

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