An Evaluation of Object-Based Data Transfers on High Performance Networks

Authors:
Phillip M. Dickens;William Gropp
Affiliations:
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Venue:
HPDC '02 Proceedings of the 11th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing
Year:
2002

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Abstract

In this paper, we describe FOBS: a simple user-level communication protocol designed to takeadvantage of the available bandwidth in a high-bandwidth, high-delay network environment. We compare the performance of FOBS with that of TCP both with and without the so-called Large Window extensions designed to improve the performance of TCP in this type of networkenvironment. It is shown that FOBS can obtain on the order of 90% of the available bandwidthacross both short and long high-performance network connections. In the case of the long haul connection, this represents a bandwidth that is 1.8 times higher than that of the optimized TCP algorithm. Also, we demonstrate that the additional traffic placed on the network due tothe greedy nature of the algorithm is quite reasonable, representing approximately 3% of the total data transferred.