Title :
Reduced communication protocol for clusters
Author :
Di, Shuo ; Zheng, Wei Min
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Technol., Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, China
Abstract :
With the development of CPUs and communication networks, workstation clusters using message-passing mechanism become a crucial role in the field of network computing. Today´s clusters are mainly connected by networks running traditional communication protocols (such as TCP/IP). The high overheads of these protocols make many parallel applications running on clusters inefficient using the potential computation power provided by the workstations and the networks. A method to solve this problem is to construct reduced communication protocol. This paper gives a detailed analysis of overheads produced by traditional protocols and provides some global strategies to design a reduced communication protocol. Our implementation method of such a protocol is described here together with some core algorithms and the testing results
Keywords :
local area networks; message passing; performance evaluation; transport protocols; CPUs; TCP/IP; clusters; communication networks; message-passing mechanism; reduced communication protocol; workstation clusters; Application software; Communication networks; Computer networks; Computer science; Ethernet networks; Neck; Operating systems; Protocols; TCPIP; Workstations;
Conference_Titel :
Advances in Parallel and Distributed Computing, 1997. Proceedings
Conference_Location :
Shanghai
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7876-3
DOI :
10.1109/APDC.1997.574049