Geographically distributed computing: ATM over the NASA ACTS satellite

Author

Dowd, Patrick W. ; Pellegrino, Frank A. ; Carrozzi, Todd M. ; Srinidhi, Saragur M.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., State Univ. of New York, Buffalo, NY, USA

Volume

1

fYear

1995

fDate

35009

Firstpage

16

Abstract

This paper outlines some of the problems and the solutions developed to support geographically distributed computing via ATM. In particular applications developed with the parallel virtual machine (PVM) message passing library, communicating via ATM at OC3c speeds (155 Mbps) through the NASA ACTS satellite are considered. A primary goal of this work is to assess the suitability of an ATM-based network to support interprocess communication and remote file I/O systems for distributed computing. This paper restricts itself to the behavior of PVM in a large propagation delay environment

Keywords

asynchronous transfer mode; delays; message passing; satellite communication; transport protocols; wide area networks; 155 Mbit/s; ATM; NASA ACTS satellite; OC3c speeds; distributed computing; geographically distributed computing; interprocess communication; large propagation delay environment; message passing library; parallel virtual machine; remote file I/O systems; Application software; Cities and towns; Distributed computing; Message passing; NASA; Propagation delay; Satellites; Supercomputers; Virtual machining; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Military Communications Conference, 1995. MILCOM '95, Conference Record, IEEE

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2489-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MILCOM.1995.483263

Filename

483263