Multicast virtual topologies for collective communication in MPCs and ATM clusters
Supercomputing '95 Proceedings of the 1995 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
A High Performance Message-Passing System for Network of Workstations
The Journal of Supercomputing - Special issue: high performance distributed computing
Network performance modeling for PVM clusters
Supercomputing '96 Proceedings of the 1996 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
Distributed network computing over local ATM networks
Proceedings of the 1994 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
Performance of high-speed network I/O subsystems: case study of a fibre channel network
Proceedings of the 1994 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
Enhanced PVM Communications over a High-Speed LAN
IEEE Parallel & Distributed Technology: Systems & Technology
Low Latency MPI for Meiko CS/2 and ATM Clusters
IPPS '97 Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Parallel Processing
Interaction between PVM Parameters and Communication Performances on ATM Networks
ParNum '99 Proceedings of the 4th International ACPC Conference Including Special Tracks on Parallel Numerics and Parallel Computing in Image Processing, Video Processing, and Multimedia: Parallel Computation
Proceedings of the 6th European PVM/MPI Users' Group Meeting on Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface
An Efficient Group Communication Architecture over ATM Networks
HCW '98 Proceedings of the Seventh Heterogeneous Computing Workshop
HCW '99 Proceedings of the Eighth Heterogeneous Computing Workshop
HPCA '96 Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture
NYNET Communication System (NCS): A Multithreaded Message Passing Tool Over ATM Network
HPDC '96 Proceedings of the 5th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing
Key to the Success of Asynchronous Transfer Mode: An Application Programming Interface
INFOCOM '97 Proceedings of the INFOCOM '97. Sixteenth Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies. Driving the Information Revolution
PVM application-level tuning over ATM
EURO-PDP'00 Proceedings of the 8th Euromicro conference on Parallel and distributed processing
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Communication between processors has long been the bottleneck of distributed network computing. However, recent progress in switch-based high-speed local area networks (LANs) may be changing this situation. Asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) is one of the most widely-accepted and emerging high-speed network standards which can potentially satisfy the communication needs of distributed network computing. We investigate distributed network computing over local ATM networks. We first study the performance characteristics involving end-to-end communication in an environment that includes several types of workstations interconnected via a Fore Systems' ASX-100 ATM switch. We then compare the communication performance of four different application programming interfaces (APIs). The four APIs were Fore Systems' ATM API, the BSD socket programming interface, Sun's remote procedure call (RPC), and the parallel virtual machine (PVM) message passing library. Each API represents distributed programming at a different communication protocol layer. We evaluated two popular distributed applications, parallel matrix multiplication and parallel partial differential equations, over the local ATM network. The experimental results show that network computing is promising over local ATM networks, provided that the higher level protocols, device drivers, and network interfaces are improved