High-Performance Networking
Our research in high-performance networking addresses the
communication needs of Grand Challenge applications
over a wide range of environments: wide-area network
(WAN) in support of computational grids and
local-area network (LAN) and system-area
network(SAN) in support of network of workstations
and clusters.
While the high-performance computing (HPC) community
generally groups clusters and grids together as
commodity supercomputing infrastructures, the
networking aspects of clusters and grids are
fundamentally different. In clusters, the primary
communication bottleneck is the host-interface
bottleneck, whereas in grids, the bottlenecks are
adaptation bottlenecks; in particular, flow control
and congestion control. To address these problems,
we offer a set of general solutions for each of
these environments.
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