An assessment of Gigabit Ethernet as cluster interconnect

Proceedings - 1st IEEE Computer Society International Workshop on Cluster Computing, IWCC 1999

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 36-42

  Mache, J ^a  

^a LEWIS AND CLARK COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

cluster interconnect; communication network; Gigabit Ethernet; NAS parallel benchmarks; performance evaluation

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; CLUSTER COMPUTING; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; COMPUTER PERIPHERAL EQUIPMENT; INTERNET PROTOCOLS; PARALLEL PROGRAMMING; SYSTEM BUSES; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

CLUSTER INTERCONNECT; END-TO-END THROUGHPUT; GIGABIT ETHERNET; GIGABIT ETHERNET NETWORKS; NAS PARALLEL BENCHMARKS; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; POINT-TO-POINT COMMUNICATION; SCALABLE COHERENT INTERFACE;

ETHERNET;

EID: 85013023479     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IWCC.1999.810807     Document Type: Conference Paper

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