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Sockets [9] have become a widespread programming interface for distributed computing. A wealth of legacy applications and higher-level communication libraries relies on this API. Sockets also provide the communication infrastructure for parallel processing systems, e.g., MPI and PVM, in workstation cluster environments. An obvious way to support those applications on a compute cluster with a new-generation, high-speed interconnect such as SCI, is therefore to port the sockets API onto this platform.
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Hellwagner, H., Weidendorfer, J. (1999). SCI Sockets Library. In: Hellwagner, H., Reinefeld, A. (eds) SCI: Scalable Coherent Interface. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1734. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/10704208_16
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