A Performance Study of Java Communication Stacks over InfiniBand and Giga-bit Ethernet

Author

Zhang, Hongwei ; Huang, Wan ; Han, Jizhong ; He, Jin ; Zhang, Lisheng

Author_Institution

Chinese Acad. of Sci., Hefei

fYear

2007

fDate

18-21 Sept. 2007

Firstpage

602

Lastpage

607

Abstract

With the popularity of Java programming language and the progress on Java compiler techniques, people have been trying to use Java to develop applications where C/C++ ruled before. However, to deliver comparable overall run-time performance with C/C++, Java I/O must also keep up with that of C/C++. In this paper, we studied comprehensively the performances of Java communication stacks over InfiniBand and giga-bit Ethernet, and compared them with those of benchmarks written in C. We found the network performance of current version of Sun Java run-time could be parallel with C over giga-bit Ethernet. But for higher performance InfiniBand network, the current communication stacks, mainly the TCP/IP emulation layers, showed rather poor performances. It can be concluded it´s necessary to invent new approach to support InfiniBand in Java applications.

Keywords

C++ language; Java; local area networks; transport protocols; C-C++; InfiniBand; Java communication; Java compiler techniques; Java programming language; Sun Java run-time; TCP-IP emulation layers; giga-bit Ethernet; Bandwidth; Computer languages; Delay; Emulation; Ethernet networks; Java; Optimization; Runtime; TCPIP; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Network and Parallel Computing Workshops, 2007. NPC Workshops. IFIP International Conference on

Conference_Location

Liaoning

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-2943-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NPC.2007.113

Filename

4351551