DHPC Technical Report DHPC-079
Asynchronous Transfer Mode and other Network Technologies
for Wide-Area and High-Performance Cluster Computing
K.A.Hawick and H.A.James
Archived: 15 December 1999
Published in Supercomputing 19, 285 (2001).
Abstract
We review fast networking technologies for both wide-area and high
performance cluster computer systems. We describe our experiences
in constructing ATM-based local-area and wide-area clusters and the
tools and technologies this experience led us to develop. We
discuss our experiences using Internet Protocol on such systems as
well as native ATM protocols and the problems facing wide-area
integration of cluster systems. We are presently constructing
Beowulf-class computer clusters using a mix of Fast Ethernet and
Gigabit Ethernet technology and we anticipate how such systems will
integrate into a new local-area Gigabit Ethernet network and what
technologies will be used for connecting shared HPC resources across
wide-areas. High latencies on wide-area cluster systems led us to
develop a metacomputing problem-solving environment known as
DISCWorld. We summarise our main developments in this project as
well as the key features and research directions for software to
exploit computational services running on fast networked cluster
systems.
Keywords: cluster computing; ATM; Gigabit Ethernet; Fast Ethernet;
DISCWorld; metacomputing.
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