Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Communications in parallel architectures and networks of workstations: From standardisation to new standards

  • Hardware and Architecture
  • Conference paper
  • First Online:
Parallel Computing Technologies (PaCT 1997)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNCS,volume 1277))

Included in the following conference series:

Abstract

Standardisation, which is the rule for PCs and workstation, is quickly expending for parallel machines and networks of workstations. The use of commodities is the key issue to reduce the cost /performance ratio: standard microprocessors, OS, libraries... are used. Standardisation of communications is more difficult if both high performance and protection in multi-user context are wanted. We examine the present trends toward standardisation of communication for parallel machines and networks of workstations. We discuss some software and hardware features to improve performance compared to the usual PVM-Unix-TCP/IP-Ethernet stack of protocols.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Log in via an institution

Institutional subscriptions

Preview

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

References

  1. R.H. Arpaci, D.A. Patterson, The Interaction of Parallel and Sequential Workloads on a Network of Workstations, UC Berkeley Technical Report CS-94-838, 1994.

    Google Scholar 

  2. Agerwala, J. L. Martin, J. H. Mirza, D. C. Sadler, D. M. Dias, and M. Snir, SP2 system architecture, IBM system journal, Vol. 34, N°2, pp 152–184, 1995.

    Google Scholar 

  3. E. Anderson, D. E. Culler, D. A. Patterson, A case for NOW (Networks of Workstations), IEEE Micro, 1995.

    Google Scholar 

  4. M. Blum, T. M. Warschko, W. F. Tichy, PSPVM. Implementing PVM on a highspeed interconnect for workstation clusters, Proc of EuroPVM'96, LNCS 1156, Springer, pp 235–242, 1996.

    Google Scholar 

  5. J. Boden, D. Cohen, R. E. Felderman, A. E. Kulawik, C. L. Seitz, J. N. Seizovic, W.-K. Su, Myrinet: A gigabit-per-second local area network, IEEE Micro, pp 29–35, February 1995.

    Google Scholar 

  6. Casanova, J. J. Dongarra, W. Jiang, The performance of PVM on MPP systems, Document de travail, University of Tennessy, Department of Computer Science, 1995.

    Google Scholar 

  7. Chang, G. Czajkowski, C. Hawblitzel, T. V. Eicken, Low-Latency Communication on the IBM RISC System/6000 SP, in ACM/IEEE Supercomputing '96, Pittsburgh, PA, November 1996.

    Google Scholar 

  8. von Eicken, D. E. Culler, S. C. Goldstein, K. E. Schauser, Actives messages: a mechanism for integrated communication and computation, Proc. of the ISCA'92, pp 256–266, May 1992.

    Google Scholar 

  9. V. Eicken, A. Basu, V. Buch, Low-latency communication over ATM networks using active messages, IEEE Micro, pp 46-53, Février 1995.

    Google Scholar 

  10. D. Etiemble and C. Germain, Standard microprocessors versus custom processing elements for massively parallel architectures, Proc. International Parallel Computing Technologies Conference ( PaCT-95 ). LNCS n° 964, St Petersburg, Russia, September 1995.

    Google Scholar 

  11. B. Gustavson, The scalable coherent interface and related standards projetcts, IEEE Micro, pp 10–22, February 1992.

    Google Scholar 

  12. BE. Kessler, J. L. Schwarzmier, Cray T3D: A new dimension for Cray Research, CompCon Spring 93, pp 176–182, 1993.

    Google Scholar 

  13. Kendall Square Research, Technical Summary, 1992.

    Google Scholar 

  14. T. Liu, D. E. Culler, Evaluation of the intel paragon on active message communication, Proc. of Intel Supercomputer users group conference, June 1995.

    Google Scholar 

  15. Pakin, M. Lauria, A. Chien, High performance messaging on workstations: Illinois Fast Messages (FM) for Myrinet, ACM, 1995.

    Google Scholar 

  16. V. Renesse, Masking the overhead of protocol layering, Proc. ACM SIGCOMM'96, pp 96–104, 1996.

    Google Scholar 

  17. B. Stunkel, et Al., The SP2 high-performance Switch, IBM system journal, Vol. 34, No2, pp 185–204,1995.

    Google Scholar 

  18. Connection Machine CM-5 Technical Summary, Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge, Mass., October 1991.

    Google Scholar 

  19. McVoy, Imbench: portable tools for performance analysis, Proc. of USENIX'96.

    Google Scholar 

  20. Welsh, A. Basu, T. V. Eicken, Low-latency communication over fast-ethernet, Proc of EuroPVM'96, LNCS 1156, Springer, pp 188–194,1996.

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. LRI, Université Paris-Sud, 91405, Orsay, France

    Franck Cappello & Daniel Etiemble

Authors
  1. Franck Cappello
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Daniel Etiemble
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Editor information

Victor Malyshkin

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 1997 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg

About this paper

Cite this paper

Cappello, F., Etiemble, D. (1997). Communications in parallel architectures and networks of workstations: From standardisation to new standards. In: Malyshkin, V. (eds) Parallel Computing Technologies. PaCT 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1277. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-63371-5_30

Download citation

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-63371-5_30

  • Published:

  • Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

  • Print ISBN: 978-3-540-63371-6

  • Online ISBN: 978-3-540-69525-7

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Search

Navigation