Abstract
Networks of commodity PCs have the potential to provide extremely cost-effective computing and information services. However, they will fulfill their promise only if their system performance is truly competitive commercial multi-computers or multiprocessors. To achieve this goal, the requirements for the communication mechanism used in such a system must not only consider end-to-end communication performance, but also consider how to accommodate commodity PC hardware and commodity operating system software. This paper describes several such requirements learned in Shrimp project and shows that a careful design and implementation can yield a high-performance communication mechanism that satisfies these requirements.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages | 225-230 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| State | Published - 1996 |
| Event | Proceedings of the 1996 3rd International Conference on Massively Parallel Processing Using Optical Interconnections, MPPOI'96 - Maui, HI, USA Duration: Oct 27 1996 → Oct 29 1996 |
Other
| Other | Proceedings of the 1996 3rd International Conference on Massively Parallel Processing Using Optical Interconnections, MPPOI'96 |
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| City | Maui, HI, USA |
| Period | 10/27/96 → 10/29/96 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- General Computer Science