DS-link over fiber: a high-speed interconnect for cluster computing

Author

Abhyankar, Yogindra ; Degwekar, Anil ; Karandikar, Abhay

Author_Institution

Centre for Dev. of Adv. Comput., Pune Univ. Campus, India

fYear

1996

fDate

15-19 Apr 1996

Firstpage

507

Lastpage

511

Abstract

There has been a considerable upsurge in cluster based computing. The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, at Pune, India is also offering a cluster computing solution based on its proprietary network. This network is built around a high speed interconnect which uses DS-link protocol, a part of IEEE 1355 standard. One of the disadvantages that prevents DS links to operate in a geographically distributed computing environment is its distance limitation. We have sought to remove this limitation by suggesting a scheme for implementing DS links over optical fibers. This scheme has been designed and implemented by us. We discuss the salient features of our scheme. Our preliminary studies indicate that a cluster computing solution using this extended link will be an attractive solution

Keywords

IEEE standards; local area networks; optical fibre LAN; optical fibre networks; performance evaluation; protocols; telecommunication standards; DS-link protocol; IEEE 1355 standard; cluster computing; distance limitation; distributed computing environment; high-speed interconnect; local area networks; optical fiber links; Availability; Computer architecture; Computer networks; Computer vision; Distributed computing; High performance computing; Optical fibers; Parallel processing; Protocols; Switches; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel Processing Symposium, 1996., Proceedings of IPPS '96, The 10th International

Conference_Location

Honolulu, HI

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7255-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IPPS.1996.508103

Filename

508103