A network architecture for distributed high performance heterogeneous computing

Author

Bhattacharya, Sourav ; Du, David H C ; Pavan, Allalaghatta ; Tong, Sheau-Ru ; Vetter, Ronald ; Williams, Kenneth

Author_Institution

Honeywell Technol. Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA

fYear

1994

fDate

34450

Firstpage

110

Lastpage

115

Abstract

Network computing has the potential for dramatically increasing the amount of computing power available to large scale compute intensive applications. The authors describe a network architecture upon which a high performance distributed computing environment may be constructed. The architecture uses a specially designed time and wavelength division multiplexed (TWDM) optical passive star as the underlying high speed network. The network architecture is flexible enough to support the many different communication patterns of distributed applications by embedding a computation directly within the system hardware

Keywords

computer networks; optical communication; optical couplers; optical information processing; real-time systems; time division multiplexing; wavelength division multiplexing; TWDM optical passive star; communication patterns; computing power; distributed applications; distributed high performance heterogeneous computing; embedded computation; high performance distributed computing environment; large scale compute intensive applications; network architecture; network computing; time and wavelength division multiplexed optical passive star; underlying high speed network; Computer applications; Computer architecture; Computer networks; Distributed computing; High speed optical techniques; High-speed networks; Large-scale systems; Optical design; Optical fiber networks; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Heterogeneous Computing Workshop, 1994., Proceedings

Conference_Location

Cancun

Print_ISBN

0-8186-5592-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HCW.1994.324954

Filename

324954