Exploiting Gigabit Ethernet capacity for cluster applications

Proceedings - Conference on Local Computer Networks, LCN

Volumn 2002-January, Issue , 2002, Pages 669-678

  Ciaccio, G ^a   Ehlert, M ^b   Schnor, B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bandwidth; Delay; Ethernet networks; Fluid dynamics; Linux; Message oriented middleware; Oceans; Performance analysis; TCPIP; Throughput

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; BENCHMARKING; CLUSTER COMPUTING; COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; COST EFFECTIVENESS; FLUID DYNAMICS; HIGH SPEED NETWORKS; LINUX; MIDDLEWARE; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; THROUGHPUT;

DELAY; ETHERNET NETWORKS; MESSAGE ORIENTED MIDDLEWARE; OCEANS; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; TCPIP;

ETHERNET;

EID: 18944392768     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/LCN.2002.1181844     Document Type: Conference Paper

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