In a Linux cluster, as in any multi-processor system, the inter-processor communication rate is the major limiting factor to its general usefulness. This research is geared toward...
Multiple copper-based commodity Gigabit Ethernet (GigE) interconnects (adapters) on a single host can lead to Linux clusters with mesh/torus connections without using expensive sw...
Jie Chen, William A. Watson III, Robert Edwards, W...
Abstract--Open-MX is a new message passing layer implemented on top of the generic Ethernet stack of the Linux kernel. Open-MX works on all Ethernet hardware, but it suffers from e...
Thanks to recent advances in virtualization technologies, it is now possible to benefit from the flexibility brought by virtual machines at little cost in terms of CPU performance....
This paper describes the evolution of the Portals message passing architecture and programming interface from its initial development on tightly-coupled massively parallel platfor...
Ron Brightwell, William Lawry, Arthur B. Maccabe, ...