Title :
Performance evaluation of ATM and gigabit networks
Author :
Park, Sung-Yong ; Lee, Joohan ; Hariri, Salim
Author_Institution :
EECS Dept., Syracuse Univ., NY, USA
Abstract :
The explosive growth of the Internet and the emergence of bandwidth-hungry applications have made asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) and gigabit Ethernet suitable network technologies to interconnect the machines and to implement high-performance distributed computing applications. We compare and characterize the performance of ATM and gigabit Ethernet over two computing platforms: Windows NT and Linux operating system. We use the NetPIPE utility developed at Ames Laboratory to compare the performance of one-way transmission (stream transfer) and roundtrip transmission (block transfer). We evaluated two parallel/distributed computing applications using the MPI message passing tool
Keywords :
Internet; asynchronous transfer mode; local area networks; message passing; network operating systems; performance evaluation; ATM; Ames Laboratory; Internet; Linux; MPI; NetPIPE; Windows NT; asynchronous transfer mode; bandwidth; block transfer; gigabit Ethernet; high-performance distributed computing; message passing tool; one-way transmission; operating system; performance evaluation; roundtrip transmission; stream transfer; Asynchronous transfer mode; Computer networks; Distributed computing; Ethernet networks; Laboratories; Linux; Local area networks; Operating systems; Quality of service; Wide area networks;
Conference_Titel :
Information Technology Conference, 1998. IEEE
Conference_Location :
Syracuse, NY
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9914-5
DOI :
10.1109/IT.1998.713401
