Title :
An approach to support a single service provider address image for wide area networks environment
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Comput. Sci., Carleton Univ., Ottawa, Ont., Canada
Abstract :
Request dispatching mechanism is at the heart of any cluster-computing environment. The goal is to support a single service provider address image for a given cluster of workstations. That is to say a given cluster publicises a single IP address and client requests are addressed to that IP address. This means, from the client´s viewpoint, there are no nodes in the cluster, only services and the network names through which they are accessible. As a result, the cluster becomes a single virtual node. We propose a simple and elegant scheme for making the cluster transparent to clients outside the cluster such that the clients can interact with the cluster as if it were a single high-performance and highly available resource
Keywords :
client-server systems; transport protocols; wide area networks; workstation clusters; IP address; client requests; cluster computing; high-performance resource; request dispatching mechanism; single service provider address image; wide area network; workstation cluster; Buildings; Computer architecture; Computer science; Dispatching; Distributed computing; Heart; Local area networks; Network servers; Wide area networks; Workstations;
Conference_Titel :
Parallel Computing in Electrical Engineering, 2000. PARELEC 2000. Proceedings. International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Trois-Rivieres, Que.
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-0759-X
DOI :
10.1109/PCEE.2000.873602
