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Virtual Interface Architecture (VIA) is a communication protocol with low latency and high bandwidth, and it’s a standard of user-level high-performance communication specification in cluster system. This paper analyzes the current development, principle and implementations of VIA, and presents a user-level high-performance VIA implementation – MyVIA based on Myrinet, which is comfortable with VIA specification. The paper first describes the design principle and framework of MyVIA, and then proposes new technologies for MyVIA. Experimental results of performance compare and analysis are presented. The results show the performance of MyVIA surpassed that of other implementations of VIA.
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Chen, Y., Jiao, Z., Xie, J., Du, Z., Liu, P., Zhu, Z. (2003). A High Performance Design and Implementation of the Virtual Interface Architecture. In: Zhou, X., Xu, M., Jähnichen, S., Cao, J. (eds) Advanced Parallel Processing Technologies. APPT 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2834. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-39425-9_14
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