Simple, scalable protocols for high-performance local networks

Author

Riesen, Rolf ; Maccabe, Arthur B.

Author_Institution

Scalable Comput. Syst., Sandia Nat. Labs., Albuquerque, NM, USA

fYear

2003

fDate

20-24 Oct. 2003

Firstpage

640

Lastpage

641

Abstract

RMPP (reliable message passing protocol) is a lightweight transport protocol designed for clusters that provides end-to-end flow control and fault tolerance. In this article, presentations were made that compares RMPP to TCP, UDP, and "Utopia". The article compared the protocols on four benchmarks: bandwidth, latency, all-to-all, and communication-computation overlap. The results have shown that message-based protocols like RMPP have several advantages over TCP including ease of implementation, support for computation/communication overlap, and low CPU overhead.

Keywords

electronic messaging; fault tolerance; local area networks; telecommunication congestion control; transport protocols; Utopia; bandwidth; communication-computation overlap; end-to-end flow control; fault tolerance; high-performance local networks; latency; reliable message passing protocol; scalable protocols; transport protocol; Bandwidth; Computer errors; Computer network reliability; Computer science; Delay; Fault tolerance; Laboratories; Message passing; TCPIP; Transport protocols;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Local Computer Networks, 2003. LCN '03. Proceedings. 28th Annual IEEE International Conference on

ISSN

0742-1303

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2037-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LCN.2003.1243194

Filename

1243194