Attaining High Performance Communications

No single solution applied at one particular layer can help applications solve all performance-related issues with communication services. Instead, this book shows that a coordinated effort is needed among the layers. It covers many different types of technologies and layers across the stack, from the architectural features of the hardware, through the protocols and their implementation in operating system kernels, to the manner in which application services and middleware are using underlying platforms. The book also describes key developments in high-end platforms, high performance interconnection fabrics and communication libraries, and multi- and many-core systems.

Ada Gavrilovska is a Research Scientist in the College of Computing and the Center for Experimental Research in Computer Systems (CERCS) at Georgia Tech.

High Performance Interconnects for Massively Parallel Systems. Commodity High Performance Interconnects. Ethernet vs. EtherNOT. System Impact of Integrated Interconnects. Network Interfaces for High Performance Computing. Network Programming Interfaces for High Performance Computing. High Performance IP-Based Transports. Remote Direct Memory Access and iWARP. Accelerating Communication Services on Multi-Core Platforms. Virtualized I/O. The Message Passing Interface. High Performance Event Communication. The Case of the Fast Financial Feed. Data-Movement Approaches for High Performance Computing Storage Systems. Network Simulation. References.