Anatomy of UDP and M-VIA for cluster communication

Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing

Volumn 65, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1290-1298

  Zhang, Xiao ^a   Bhuyan, Laxmi N ^a   Feng, Wu Chun ^b  

^a University of California Riverside   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cluster communication; Measurement; Performance evaluation; TCP UDP IP; Virtual Interface Architecture (VIA)

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; MEASUREMENTS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS;

CLUSTER COMMUNICATION; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; TCP/UDP/IP; VIRTUAL INTERFACE ARCHITECTURE (VIA);

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 24144445405     PISSN: 07437315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpdc.2005.04.009     Document Type: Article

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