ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review
TNet: A Reliable System Area Network
IEEE Micro
Credit-based flow control for ATM networks
IEEE Network: The Magazine of Global Internetworking
Integration of rate and credit schemes for ATM flow control
IEEE Network: The Magazine of Global Internetworking
A Framework-Based Approach to the Development of Network-Aware Applications
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
QoS provisioning in clusters: an investigation of Router and NIC design
ISCA '01 Proceedings of the 28th annual international symposium on Computer architecture
MediaWorm: A QoS Capable Router Architecture for Clusters
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
The Least Choice First Scheduling Method for High-Speed Network Switche
IPDPS '02 Proceedings of the 16th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium
Performance analysis of a QoS capable cluster interconnect
Performance Evaluation - Performance modelling and evaluation of high-performance parallel and distributed systems
MMR: A MultiMedia Router architecture to support hybrid workloads
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
The least choice first (LCF) scheduling method for high-speed network switches
The least choice first (LCF) scheduling method for high-speed network switches
Integration of admission, congestion, and peak power control in QoS-aware clusters
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
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Computer systems have become powerful enough to process continuous data streams such as video or animated graphics. While processing power and communication bandwidth of today's systems typically are sufficient, quality of service (QoS) guarantees as required for handling such data types cannot be provided by these systems in adequate ways.We present Switcherland, a scalable communication architecture based on crossbar switches that provides QoS guarantees for workstation clusters in the form of reserved bandwidth and bounded transmission delays. Similar to the ATM technology Switcherland provides QoS guarantees with the help of service classes, that is, data transfers are characterized as variable bit rate traffic or constant bit rate traffic. However, unlike LAN technologies, Switcherland is optimized for cluster computing in that (i) it serves as a backplane interconnection fabric as well as a LAN, (ii) it extends support for service classes by also covering the end nodes of the network, (iii) it provides low latency in the order of one microsecond per switch, and (iv) it uses a communication model based on a global memory to simplify programming.