A TCP tuning daemon

Proceedings of the International Conference on Supercomputing

Volumn 2002-November, Issue , 2002, Pages

  Dunigan, Tom ^a   Mathis, Matt ^b   Tierney, Brian ^c  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b PITTSBURGH SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Autotuning; Data grids; High performance networking; TCP

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH;

AUTOTUNING; AVAILABLE BANDWIDTH; DATA GRID; DISTRIBUTED APPLICATIONS; HIGH NETWORK THROUGHPUT; HIGH-PERFORMANCE NETWORKING; NETWORK SETTINGS; NETWORKING COMMUNITY; PARALLEL STREAMS; PERFORMANCE;

TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL;

EID: 85039518482     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SC.2002.10023     Document Type: Conference Paper

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