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With a logical view closer to a distributed operating system than a pure communication infrastructure, one might consider extending for computational grids the basic functionalities found in the commodity Internet’s network infrastructure to a higher level, thus offering higher value functionalities than the standard IP routing functionality that has basically remained unchanged for 2 decades. In this paper, we report on our early experiences in building application-aware components for a multicast communication protocol targeted for providing low latencies and low overheads for applications running on a computational grid. Performance results from both simulations and implementation prototypes confirm that introducing application-aware components at specific location in the network infrastructure can succeed in providing not only performances for the end-users but also new perspectives in building a communication framework for computational grids.
This work is supported in part by the french ACI Grid program and by the E-Toile project.
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Maimour, M., Pham, C. (2002). Towards an Application-Aware Multicast Communication Framework for Computational Grids. In: Jean-Marie, A. (eds) Advances in Computing Science — ASIAN 2002. ASIAN 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2550. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36184-7_14
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