Improving Middleware Performance with AdOC: An Adaptive Online Compression Library for Data Transfer
IPDPS '05 Proceedings of the 19th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS'05) - Papers - Volume 01
Smartsockets: solving the connectivity problems in grid computing
Proceedings of the 16th international symposium on High performance distributed computing
A scalable high-performance communication library for wide-area environments
GRID '08 Proceedings of the 2008 9th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Grid Computing
Characterizing user-level network virtualization: performance, overheads and limits
International Journal of Network Management
Optimizing tunneled grid connectivity across firewalls
AusGrid '09 Proceedings of the Seventh Australasian Symposium on Grid Computing and e-Research - Volume 99
IP over P2P: enabling self-configuring virtual IP networks for grid computing
IPDPS'06 Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Parallel and distributed processing
A virtual network (ViNe) architecture for grid computing
IPDPS'06 Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Parallel and distributed processing
Using SCTP to hide latency in MPI programs
IPDPS'06 Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Parallel and distributed processing
Private virtual cluster: infrastructure and protocol for instant grids
Euro-Par'06 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Parallel Processing
On the use of virtualization and service technologies to enable grid-computing
Euro-Par'05 Proceedings of the 11th international Euro-Par conference on Parallel Processing
A novel resource selection framework to improve QoS in computational grid
International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering
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Grid computing applications are challenged by current wide-area networks: firewalls, private IP addresses and network address translation (NAT) hamper connectivity, the TCP protocol can hardly exploit the available bandwidth, and security features like authentication and encryption are usually difficult to integrate. Existing systems (like GridFTP, JXTA, SOCKS) each address only one of these issues. However, applications need to cope with all of them, at the same time. Unfortunately, existing solutions are often not easy to combine, and a particular solution for one subproblem may reduce the applicability or performance of another. In this paper, we identify the building blocks that are needed for connection establishment and efficient link utilization. We present an integrated solution, implemented within the Java-based Ibis runtime system. Our NetIbis implementation lets applications span multiple sites of a grid, and copes with firewalls, local IP addresses, secure communication, and TCP bandwidth problems.