IP routers are now increasingly expected to do more than just traditional packet forwarding – they must be extensible as well as scalable. It is a challenge to design a router a...
This paper presents the design of InfiniWrite, the implementation of a lightweight communication interface called RWAPI over the InfiniBand interconnect for clusters of PCs. Sinc...
In the last decade, cluster computing has become the most popular high-performance computing architecture. Although numerous technological innovations have been proposed to improv...
The performance skeleton of an application is a short running program whose performance in any scenario reflects the performance of the application it represents. Specifically, th...
—Many large-scale distributed systems can benefit from a service that allows them to select among alternative nodes based on their relative network positions. A variety of appro...