Active and logistical networking for grid computing: the e-Toile architecture

  • Authors:
  • Alessandro Bassi;Micah Beck;Jean-Patrick Gelas;Laurent Lefèvre;Terry Moore;James Plank;Pascale Vicat-Blanc Primet

  • Affiliations:
  • LoCI Laboratory, University of Tennessee, 203 Claxton Building, 37996-3450 Knoxville, TN, USA;LoCI Laboratory, University of Tennessee, 203 Claxton Building, 37996-3450 Knoxville, TN, USA;INRIA LIP (UMR CRNS, INRIA, ENS, UCB Lyon 1) Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, 46, allée d'Italie, 69364 Lyon Cedex 07, France;INRIA LIP (UMR CRNS, INRIA, ENS, UCB Lyon 1) Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, 46, allée d'Italie, 69364 Lyon Cedex 07, France;LoCI Laboratory, University of Tennessee, 203 Claxton Building, 37996-3450 Knoxville, TN, USA;LoCI Laboratory, University of Tennessee, 203 Claxton Building, 37996-3450 Knoxville, TN, USA;INRIA LIP (UMR CRNS, INRIA, ENS, UCB Lyon 1) Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, 46, allée d'Italie, 69364 Lyon Cedex 07, France

  • Venue:
  • Future Generation Computer Systems
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

While active networks provide new solutions for the deployment of dynamic services in the network, exposing network processing resources, logistical networking focuses on exposing storage resources inside networks, optimizing the global scheduling of data transport, data storage and computation. In this paper, we show how active and logistical environments working together can improve grid middleware, and provide new and innovative high-level services for grid applications. We have experimented with this approach by combining the Internet Backplane Protocol suite with the Tamanoir Active Node environment. Our target architecture is the French e-Toile Grid infrastructure based on a high performance backbone (Vraiment Tres Haut Debit, VTHD).