Enabling Network-Aware Applications

  • Authors:
  • Brian L. Tierney;Dan Gunter;Jason Lee;Martin Stoufer;Joseph B. Evans

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • HPDC '01 Proceedings of the 10th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

Abstract: Many high performance distributed applications use only a small fraction of their available bandwidth. A common cause of this problem is not a flaw in the application design, but rather improperly tuned net-work settings. Proper tuning techniques, such as set-ting the correct TCP buffers and using parallel streams, are well known in the networking community, but outside the networking community they are infrequently applied. In this paper, we describe a service that makes the task of network tuning trivial for application developers and users. Widespread use of this service should virtually eliminate a common stumbling block for high performance distributed applications.