The VMP network adapter board (NAB): high-performance network communication for multiprocessors
SIGCOMM '88 Symposium proceedings on Communications architectures and protocols
Performance of the Firefly RPC
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
Protocol implementation on the Nectar Communication Processor
SIGCOMM '90 Proceedings of the ACM symposium on Communications architectures & protocols
Network-based multicomputers: an emerging parallel architecture
Proceedings of the 1991 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
Analyzing communication latency using the Nectar communication processor
SIGCOMM '92 Conference proceedings on Communications architectures & protocols
A Host Interface Architecture for High-Speed Networks
Proceedings of the IFIP TC6/WG6.4 Fourth International Conference on High Performance Networking IV
Architecture and evaluation of a high-speed networking subsystem for distributed-memory systems
ISCA '94 Proceedings of the 21st annual international symposium on Computer architecture
Software support for outboard buffering and checksumming
SIGCOMM '95 Proceedings of the conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communication
Fast message assembly using compact address relations
Proceedings of the 1996 ACM SIGMETRICS international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
Network-Based Multicomputers: A Practical Supercomputer Architecture
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
The impact of a zero-scan Internet checksumming mechanism
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
A high-speed network interface for distributed-memory systems: architecture and applications
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
File server scaling with network-attached secure disks
SIGMETRICS '97 Proceedings of the 1997 ACM SIGMETRICS international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
Structuring Communication Software for Quality-of-Service Guarantees
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Performance monitoring in a Myrinet-connected SHRIMP cluster
SPDT '98 Proceedings of the SIGMETRICS symposium on Parallel and distributed tools
Using high speed networks to enable distributed parallel image server systems
Proceedings of the 1994 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
A Customizable Simulator for Workstation Networks
IPPS '97 Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Parallel Processing
A virtual server queueing network method for component based performance modelling of metacomputing
Future Generation Computer Systems - Special issue: Semantic grid and knowledge grid: the next-generation web
LyraNET: A zero-copy TCP/IP protocol stack for embedded systems
Real-Time Systems
Journal of High Speed Networks
On modelling and analysis of receive livelock and CPU utilization in high-speed networks
International Journal of Computers and Applications
ATEC '96 Proceedings of the 1996 annual conference on USENIX Annual Technical Conference
An efficient delay-optimal distributed termination detection algorithm
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
On the accuracy of two analytical models for evaluating the performance of Gigabit Ethernet hosts
Information Sciences: an International Journal
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Optical fiber has made it possible to build networks with link speeds of over a gigabit per second; however, these networks are pushing end-systems to their limits. For high-speed networks (100 Mbits per second and up), network throughput is typically limited by software overhead on the sending and receiving hosts. Minimizing this overhead improves application-level latency and throughput and reduces the number of cycles that applications lose to communication overhead. Several factors influence communication overhead: communication protocols, the application programming interface (API). and the network interface hardware architecture. The author describes how these factors influence communication performance and under what conditions hardware support on the network adapter can reduce overhead. He first describes the organization of a typical network interface and discusses performance considerations for interfaces to high-speed networks. He then discusses software optimizations that apply to simple network adapters and show how more powerful adapters can improve performance on high-speed networks.