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Performance analysis of a peer-to-peer I/O architecture in video server environments

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In the personal computing (PC) and workstation environments, more and more I/O adapters are becoming complete functional subsystems that are intelligent enough to handle I/O operations on their own without much intervention from the host processor. The IBM Subsystem Control Block (SCB) architecture has been defined to enhance the potential of these intelligent adapters by defining services and conventions that deliver command information and data to and from the adapters. The SCB architecture has two operating modes. The Locate Mode represents the conventional, interrupt-driven I/O protocol used in many current personal computers. The Move Mode embodies an advanced, peer-to-peer I/O protocol proposed for the next generation of personal computers. In this paper, we would like to discuss and present a performance analysis of the SCB architecture in typical video server environments. In particular, we study a video server capable of providing support for simultaneous MPEG-1 video streams to multiple clients on a 16-Mbps token-ring network. We also consider the performance impact of a hypothetical 100-Mbps token-ring technology on the video server performance.

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  1. IBM Corporation, Internal Zip 1430, P.O. Box 1328, 33429-1328, Boca Raton, Florida

    Khoa D. Huynh

  2. Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Florida Atlantic University, 33431, Boca Raton, Florida

    Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar

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Huynh, K.D., Khoshgoftaar, T.M. Performance analysis of a peer-to-peer I/O architecture in video server environments. Multimed Tools Appl 1, 217–244 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01215869

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