ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR) - The MIT Press scientific computation series
Communications of the ACM
Active messages: a mechanism for integrated communication and computation
ISCA '92 Proceedings of the 19th annual international symposium on Computer architecture
Limits to low-latency communication on high-speed networks
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
Distributed Operating Systems: The Logical Design
Distributed Operating Systems: The Logical Design
Distributed network computing over local ATM networks
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Performance evaluation of communication networks for distributed computing
ICCCN '95 Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks
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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. In this paper, 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, 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 evaluate parallel Matrix Multiplication over the local ATM network. The experimental results show that network computing is promising over local ATM networks.