How GridFTP pipelining, parallelism and concurrency work: A guide for optimizing large dataset transfers

Proceedings - 2012 SC Companion: High Performance Computing, Networking Storage and Analysis, SCC 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 506-515

  Yildirim, Esma ^a   Kim, Jangyoung ^b   Kosar, Tevfik ^b  

^a FATIH UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b University at Buffalo ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH-BANDWIDTH NETWORKS; LARGE DATASET; LARGE DATASETS; NETWORK SPEED; PARALLELISM AND CONCURRENCIES; PRACTICAL USE; ROUND-TRIP TIME; TRANSFER PROTOCOL;

COMPLEX NETWORKS;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 84876551765     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SC.Companion.2012.73     Document Type: Conference Paper

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