SCinet: Testbed for high-performance networked applications

Author

Kramer, William T C

Author_Institution

Lawrence Berkeley Nat. Lab., CA, USA

Volume

35

Issue

6

fYear

2002

fDate

6/1/2002 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

47

Lastpage

55

Abstract

The network\´s use by high-performance applications is difficult to evaluate in the real world. To better understand this interaction, leading experts and organizations in ultra-high-performance networking and computing come together once a year to build an intense, diverse, high-performance network. Almost overnight, the SCinet network comes online as a testbed to show-case state-of-the-art network technology at the IEEE/ACM-sponsored supercomputing conference known as SCxy. in the words of one network engineer, the SCinet team challenges application developers to "burn down the world\´s fastest network." They selected 10 of the most data-intensive applications in 2000 and 12 applications in 2001 for evaluation in a formal judging

Keywords

computer networks; information resources; multiprocessing systems; parallel architectures; performance evaluation; SCinet; SCinet testbed; high-performance applications; networking; state-of-the-art network; ultra-high-performance networking; Bandwidth; Computer networks; Ethernet networks; Local area networks; Optical fiber cables; Production; Stress; Telecommunication traffic; Testing; Wide area networks;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Computer

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9162

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MC.2002.1009168

Filename

1009168