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SCTP, XTP and TCP as Transport Protocols for High Performance Computing on Multi-cluster Grid Environments

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High Performance Computing Systems and Applications (HPCS 2009)

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Multi-cores and multi-processors loosely coupled architectures are interesting commodity off-the-shelf architectures with which to build multi-cluster configurations as grid environments. However, such grid environments face challenges that must be circumvented. Examples include the heterogeneity of computational resources (e.g. operating systems, processors), of different programming paradigms and of network protocols. Transport protocols are especially important, because they can directly impact the execution of distributed engineering and scientific applications. In this paper, we present an empirical study of the SCTP, XTP and TCP as transport protocols with which to support applications in multi-cluster configurations. The environment includes several networks of workstations (NOWs) interconnected via a wide area network. Our experiments consider throughput and latency parameters against number of flows; the results show performance differences from the three transport protocols over a real distributed production configurations.

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  1. Post-Graduate Program in Computer Science (PPGCC), Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC), Campus Trindade, Florianopolis, 88040 900, Brazil

    Diogo R. Viegas, R. P. Mendonça & Mario A. R. Dantas

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, N6A 5B7, Canada

    Michael A. Bauer

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  1. Dept. of Psychology, Queen‘s University, 62 Arch St, K7L 3N6, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

    Douglas J. K. Mewhort

  2. Dept of Chemistry, Queen’s University, Chernoff Hall, K7L 3N6, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

    Natalie M. Cann

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Viegas, D.R., Mendonça, R.P., Dantas, M.A.R., Bauer, M.A. (2010). SCTP, XTP and TCP as Transport Protocols for High Performance Computing on Multi-cluster Grid Environments. In: Mewhort, D.J.K., Cann, N.M., Slater, G.W., Naughton, T.J. (eds) High Performance Computing Systems and Applications. HPCS 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5976. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12659-8_17

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