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BCL-3: A high performance basic communication protocol for commodity superserver DAWNING-3000

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This paper introduces the design and implementation of BCL-3, a high performance low-level communication software running on a cluster of SMPs (CLUMPS) called DAWNING-3000. BCL-3 provides flexible and sufficient functionality to fulfiil the communication requirements of fundamental system software developed for DAWNING-3000 while guaranteeing security, scalability, and reliability. Important features of BCL-3 are presented in the paper, including special support for SMP and heterogeneous network environment, semiuser-level communication, reliable and ordered data transfer and scalable flow control. The performance evaluation of BCL-3 over Myrinet is also given.

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    Ma Jie, He Jin, Meng Dan & Li Guojie

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This work is supported by the National ‘863’ High-Tech Programme of China (No. 863-306-ZD01-01).

MA Jie received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in computer science from Xi’an Jiaotong University in 1995 and 1998, respectively. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate of the Institute of Computing Technology, The Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research interests include high performance computer architecture, cluster operating system, high performance communication protocol and parallel computing.

HE Jin received his B.S. degree in material science and engineering from Xi’an Jiaotong University in 1996 and M.S. degree in computer science from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 1999. He is currently a Ph.D candidate of the Institute of Computing Technology, The Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research interests include high performance computer architecture, distributed file system and storage server.

MENG Dan received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from Harbin Institute of Technology in 1988, 1991 and 1995, respectively. He is an associate professor of the Institute of Computing Technology, The Chinese Academy of Sciences. His current research interests include high performance computer architecture, cluster operating system, high performance communication protocol, distributed file system and storage server.

LI Guojie received his B.S. degree in physics from Peking University in 1968, M.S. degree in computer science from University of Science & Technology of China in 1981, and Ph.D. degree in EE from Purdue University, USA in 1985. He is a member of Chinese Academy of Engineering and director of Institute of Computing Technology, The Chinese Academy of Sciences. His current research interests include high performance computer architecture, and MPP systems for bio-information processing.

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Ma, J., He, J., Meng, D. et al. BCL-3: A high performance basic communication protocol for commodity superserver DAWNING-3000. J. Comput. Sci. & Technol. 16, 522–530 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02943236

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