User-space auto-tuning for TCP flow control in computational grids

Authors:
Mark K Gardner;Sunil Thulasidasan;Wu-Chun Feng
Affiliations:
Computer and Computational Sciences Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA;Computer and Computational Sciences Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA;Computer and Computational Sciences Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA
Venue:
Computer Communications
Year:
2004

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Abstract

With the advent of computational grids, networking performance over the wide-area network (WAN) has become a critical component in the grid infrastructure. Unfortunately, many high-performance grid applications only use a small fraction of their available bandwidth because operating systems and their associated protocol stacks are still tuned for yesterday's network speeds. As a result, network gurus undertake the tedious process of manually tuning system buffers to allow TCP flow control to scale to today's WAN environments. And although recent research has shown how to set the size of these system buffers automatically at connection set-up, the buffer sizes are only appropriate at the beginning of the connection's lifetime. To address these problems, we describe an automated and lightweight technique called Dynamic Right-Sizing that can improve throughput by as much as an order of magnitude while still abiding by TCP semantics. We show the performance of two user-space implementations of DRS: drsFTP and DRS-enabled GridFTP.