Wide-Area Gigabit Networking: Los Alamos HIPPI-SONET Gateway

Author

John, Wally St ; DuBois, Dave

Author_Institution

Los Alamos National Laboratory

fYear

1995

fDate

1995

Firstpage

46

Lastpage

46

Abstract

This paper describes a HIPPI-SONET Gateway which has been designed by members of the Computer Network Engineering Group at Los Alamos National Laboratory. The Gateway has been used in the CASA Gigabit Testbed at Caltech, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and the San Diego Supercomputer Center to provide communications between the sites. This paper will also make some qualitative statements as to lessons learned during the deployment and maintenance of this wide area network. We report record throughput for transmission of data across a wide area network. We have sustained data rates using the TCP/IP protocol of 550 Mbits/second and the rate of 792 Mbits/second for raw HIPPI data transfer over the 2,000 kilometers from the San Diego Supercomputer Center to the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Keywords

CASA; CASA Gigabit Testbed; Gateway; Gigabit Networking; HIPPI; HIPPI-SONET; HIPPI-SONET Gateway; High-Performance Parallel Interface; Los Alamos; Los Alamos National Lab; Los Alamos National Laboratory; Networking; SONET; Synchronous Optical Network; Wide Area Networking; Wide-Area Networking; Application software; Computer networks; Concurrent computing; Laboratories; SONET; Supercomputers; Telecommunication congestion control; Testing; Throughput; Wide area networks; CASA; CASA Gigabit Testbed; Gateway; Gigabit Networking; HIPPI; HIPPI-SONET; HIPPI-SONET Gateway; High-Performance Parallel Interface; Los Alamos; Los Alamos National Lab; Los Alamos National Laboratory; Networking; SONET; Synchronous Optical Network; Wide Area Networking; Wide-Area Networking;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Supercomputing, 1995. Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM SC95 Conference

Print_ISBN

0-89791-816-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SUPERC.1995.241593

Filename

1383182