Interconnection scheme for NOW (network of workstations)

Author

Odhiambo, Marcel O.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Commun. Eng., Moi Univ., Eldoret, Kenya

Volume

1

fYear

1999

fDate

6/21/1905 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

553

Abstract

An interconnection scheme for NOW aims to provide a network of hosts (distributed computer system) in which distributed computing can be performed. The distributed system akin to the Internet, consists of a few or several hosts connected together by a logical interconnection network. Hosts on the network are grouped into domains, and the domains are interconnected together to form the network. Hosts in a domain are directly connected to every other host within that domain. Within a domain, a single host acts as a gateway host handling extra domain messages. To provide the distributed computer system, I implemented an interconnection scheme with two main functions: to provide connectivity among the hosts in the network; and message routing capability between the hosts

Keywords

message passing; workstation clusters; Internet; distributed computing; domain messages; gateway host; host connectivity; interconnection scheme; message routing; workstation network; Computer architecture; Computer networks; Distributed computing; IP networks; Multiprocessor interconnection networks; Routing; Sockets; TCPIP; Table lookup; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Africon, 1999 IEEE

Conference_Location

Cape Town

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5546-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AFRCON.1999.820965

Filename

820965