Gigabit Nectar: Architecture and Performance.

Abstract

Multicomputers consisting of off-the-shelf computers connected by commercial high-speed networks form an economically attractive computing platform for a large class of applications. However, while high- speed networks are fairly widely available (e.g. HIPPI and ATM), many computer systems have problems delivering this high bandwidth to the applications, thus limiting the class of applications that can be supported by multicomputers. The Gigabit Nectar project developed a network interface architecture that supports efficient high-bandwidth end-end communication. This architecture has been implemented for workstations (DEC Alpha) and distributed-memory systems (iWarp) and has been deployed in the Gigabit Nectar testbed. This report describes the Nectar network interface and its implementation and performance, and summarizes our application experience in the testbed.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1995
Accession Number
ADA303091

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  • Peter Steenkiste

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  • Carnegie Mellon University

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  • Energy and Power Technologies

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  • Algorithms
  • Computer Networks
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Computing System Architectures
  • Data Transmission
  • Distributed Computing
  • Network Protocols
  • Network Science
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  • Supercomputers
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  • Computer science

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