Network Interface for Message-Passing Parallel Computation on a Workstation Cluster
As commercial microprocessors become increasingly popular in current MPP architectures, high-performance commercial workstations have also received increased attention as cost-effective building blocks for large parallel-processing systems. The Fast User-level Network (FUNet) project [10] is an atte...
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1994
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| Online Access: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.32.7498 http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~alanm/CP/hoe.hoti2.94.ps.gz |
| Summary: | As commercial microprocessors become increasingly popular in current MPP architectures, high-performance commercial workstations have also received increased attention as cost-effective building blocks for large parallel-processing systems. The Fast User-level Network (FUNet) project [10] is an attempt at constructing an inexpensive workstationbased parallel system capable of supporting efficient execution of message-passing parallel programs. Based on MIT's Arctic [1] network technology, FUNet connects stockconfigured commodity workstations with a high-bandwidth packet-switched routing network. The Fast User-level Network Interface (FUNi) is the custom hardware network interface device that provides access to FUNet for both message passing and remote direct-memory-access (DMA) block transfers between parallel peer processes on FUNetconnected workstations. The FUNi hardware mechanisms allow direct low-overhead user-level accesses to FUNet while maintaining secure and transparent sharin. |
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