A commodity cluster using IEEE 1394 network for parallel applications

Authors:
Yong Yu;Yu-Fai Fung
Affiliations:
Department of Electrical Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong;Department of Electrical Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Venue:
PDCAT'04 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing: applications and Technologies
Year:
2004

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Abstract

IEEE 1394 is now a widely used interface for connecting PC peripherals. Since it provides high data transmission rate at low price, The IEEE 1394 bus can also be a cost-effective solution for linking a Network Of Computers (NOWs), or Cluster. In this paper, we tested the performance of IEEE 1394 on the Linux system, and discussed the implementation of a new communication library for using the IEEE 1394 network as NOWs interconnection.