An I/O Acceleration Technology for Network Computing: iTRM

Author

Huai-liang, TAN ; Wei-xin, TANG ; Jian-hua, SUN

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. & Commun., Hunan Univ., Changsha

Volume

3

fYear

2008

fDate

12-14 Dec. 2008

Firstpage

275

Lastpage

278

Abstract

This paper presents an I/O acceleration technology for network computing: iSCSI transparent reliable multicast (iTRM) protocol. The iTRM protocol introduces double I/O paths for iSCSI network computing system: the multicast parth transmitting shared data and the iSCSI parth transmitting iSCSI PDU. The iTRM protocol extends the definition of iSCSI protocol to interpret the multicast session announcement. The iTRM introduces a transparent agent to monitor the loading of storage server and decide when to launch the multicast session. Test results show that, the iTRM protocol boosts the performance of parallel I/O operation for few client hosts, and enhance the stability of the network computing system.

Keywords

computer network reliability; distributed processing; multicast protocols; I/O acceleration technology; iSCSI transparent reliable multicast protocol; iTRM; multicast session announcement; network computing; Acceleration; Computer architecture; Computer networks; Distributed computing; IEEE news; Multicast protocols; Network servers; Paper technology; Switches; System testing; I/O Acceleration; iSCSI; iTRM; network computing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Science and Software Engineering, 2008 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Wuhan, Hubei

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3336-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CSSE.2008.915

Filename

4722339