Event Services for High Performance Computing

The Internet and the Grid are changing the face of high performance computing. Rather than tightly-coupled SPMD-style components running in a single cluster, on a parallel machine, or even on the Internet programmed in MPI, applications are evolving into sets of collaborating elements scattered across diverse computational elements. These collaborating components may run on different operating systems and hardware platforms and may be written by different organizations in different languages. Complete “applications” are constructed by assembling these components in a plug-and-play fashion. This new vision for high performance computing demands features and characteristics not easily provided by traditional highperformance communications middleware. In response to these needs, we have developed ECho, a high-performance event-delivery middleware that meets the new demands of the Grid environment. ECho provides efficient binary transmission of event data with unique features that su...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2000
• Where: HPDC
• Authors: Greg Eisenhauer, Fabián E. Bustamante, Karsten Schwan
• Keywords: Distributed And Parallel Computing, HPDC 2000, Measurements Detailing Echo, Performance Computing Demands, Tightly-coupled Spmd-style Components