Title :
Experiences with ATM: the Boulder perspective
Author :
Foldvik, R.G. ; McBryan, O.A.
Author_Institution :
US West Commun., Seattle, WA, USA
Abstract :
ATM interconnection of computers and supercomputers offers exciting prospects for building both LANs and WANs because of the expected economies of scale, wide penetration of ATM, and future scalability to higher bandwidths. The ATM trial discussed was developed in Boulder, Colorado by US WEST to determine the feasibility of using ATM for high-end computing applications. We describe the Boulder ATM trial and report performance measurements for three types of applications: communication between workstations, communication between supercomputers, and access rates from computers to mass storage. In each case we found that the ATM WAN provided an efficient and effective transport mechanism, and limiting bandwidth effects were invariably within the computers and mass storage systems
Keywords :
asynchronous transfer mode; performance evaluation; wide area networks; ATM interconnection; WAN; access rates; computers; high-end computing applications; limiting bandwidth effects; mass storage; performance measurements; supercomputers; transport mechanism; workstations; Application software; Bandwidth; Computer applications; Economies of scale; LAN interconnection; Measurement; Scalability; Supercomputers; Wide area networks; Workstations;
Conference_Titel :
Communications, 1995. ICC '95 Seattle, 'Gateway to Globalization', 1995 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Seattle, WA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-2486-2
DOI :
10.1109/ICC.1995.525154
