GNBD/VIA: A Network Block Device over Virtual Interface Architecture on Linux
IPDPS '02 Proceedings of the 16th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium
Designing Efficient Java Communications on Clusters
IPDPS '05 Proceedings of the 19th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS'05) - Workshop 5 - Volume 06
High Performance Sockets over Kernel Level Virtual Interface Architecture
HPCASIA '05 Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on High-Performance Computing in Asia-Pacific Region
Exploiting NIC architectural support for enhancing IP-based protocols on high-performance networks
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing - Special issue: Design and performance of networks for super-, cluster-, and grid-computing: Part II
Java Fast Sockets: Enabling high-speed Java communications on high performance clusters
Computer Communications
IPDPS'06 Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Parallel and distributed processing
Non-blocking java communications support on clusters
EuroPVM/MPI'06 Proceedings of the 13th European PVM/MPI User's Group conference on Recent advances in parallel virtual machine and message passing interface
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The Virtual Interface Architecture (VIA) is an industry standard user-level communication architecture for system area networks. The VIA provides a protected, directly-accessible interface to a network hardware, removing the operating system from the critical communication path. In this paper, we design and implement a user-level Sockets layer over VIA, named SOVIA (Sockets Over VIA). Our objective is to use the SOVIA layer to accelerate the existing Sockets-based applications with a reasonable effort and to provide a portable and high performance communication library based on VIA to the application developers.SOVIA realizes comparable performance to native VIA, showing the minimum latency of 10.5usec and the peak bandwidth of 814Mbps on Giganet's cLAN. We have verified the functional compatibility with the existing Sockets API by porting FTP (File Transfer Protocol) and RPC (Remote Procedure Call) applications over the SOVIA layer. Compared to the Giganet's LANE driver which emulates TCP/IP inside the kernel, SOVIA easily doubles the file transfer bandwidth in FTP and reduces the latency of calling an empty remote procedure by 77% in RPC applications.