NDLI: Classification and characterization of host network interface architectures

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Bo-Kyun Na Hariri, S.
Copyright Year	1998
Description	Author affiliation: EECS Dept., Syracuse Univ., NY, USA (Bo-Kyun Na)
Abstract	The recent advances in high speed network technologies have made parallel and distributed computing over a Network of Workstations (NOW) an attractive and a cost effective computing environment. However, the performance of parallel and distributed applications running on NOW resources suffers from high latency and low throughput even when the network speed is in Megabit or Gegabit per second range. The main reasons for the low performance can be contributed to the design of the host network interface (HNI) and the software mechanisms used to transmit data from the host to the network and vice versa. We review HNI designs and propose a hierarchical taxonomy to characterize and describe the architectures of HNI. The taxonomy consists of two levels of characterization: architectural level and protocol level. In the architectural level, we describe the main components used to implement any HNI and how they interact with each other to perform the HNI functions. In the protocol level, we describe how the software functions (data copying, transport protocol functions, etc.) are mapped into the main HNI components identified at the architecture level. We provide several examples that show how our taxonomy can accurately describe the architectures of HNI and also characterize the performance limitations of any HNI design.
Starting Page	177
Ending Page	180
File Size	396449
Page Count	4
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0780399145
DOI	10.1109/IT.1998.713409
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	1998-09-03
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Transport protocols Concurrent computing Costs High-speed networks Taxonomy Computer architecture Computer networks Workstations Network interfaces Distributed computing
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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