Ada Gavrilovska - Attaining High Performance Communications: A Vertical Approach
Publisher: Chаpman and Hаll/C.R.C. | 2009-09-21 | ISBN: 1420093088 | PDF | 416 pages | 6.44 MB
Technological Advances and Problems of High Performance Communications
An ecosystem of solutions along a stack of technology layers
Cohesively collecting state-of-the-art contributions from leading
researchers in industry, national laboratories, and academia, Attaining
High Performance Communications: A Vertical Approach discusses various
issues pertaining to high performance communications in a particular
layer of a vertical stack. It explores efficient interconnection
hardware, the architectural aspects of network adapters and their
integration with processor cores, the design of scalable and robust high
performance end-to-end communications services and protocols, and
system services and tools for new multi-core environments.
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.
This volume addresses the challenges involved in emerging types of
communications applications, platforms, and services. Examining each
layer in the vertical stack, it illustrates how to eliminate bottlenecks
and provide optimization opportunities.
