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Proceedings of the 1988 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
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Proceedings of the 1993 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
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Proceedings of the IFIP TC6/WG6.4 Fourth International Conference on High Performance Networking IV
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Proceedings of the IFIP TC6/WG6.4 Fourth International Conference on High Performance Networking IV
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ICS '94 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Supercomputing
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SIGCOMM '95 Proceedings of the conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communication
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Supercomputing '95 Proceedings of the 1995 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
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IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
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Achieving high-speed network I/O on distributed-memory systems is difficult because their architecture is in general ill-suited for communication processing. Some of the common problems are: inability to do protocol processing, inefficient handling of data distribution, and poor management of the I/O. In this paper we present an I/O architecture that addresses these problems and supports high-speed network I/O on distributed-memory systems. The key to good performance is to partition the work appropriately between the system and the network interface. We perform some communication tasks on the distributed-memory parallel system since it is more powerful, and less likely to become a bottleneck than the network interface. Tasks that do not parallelize well are performed on the network interface and hardware support is provided for the most time-critical operations. We emphasize the use of simple I/O mechanisms that can be used by programming tools that map applications on the distributed-memory system to implement efficient I/O for the class of applications they support.This architecture has been implemented for the iWarp distributed-memory system. We describe this implementation and present performance results.