Towards an Application-Aware Multicast Communication Framework for Computational Grids

Moufida Maimour (1) , Cong-Duc Pham (2)

1 RESO - Protocols and softwares for very high-performance network
2 LIUPPA - Laboratoire Informatique de l'Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour

With a logical view closer to a distributed operating system than a pure communication infrastructure, one might consider extending for computational grids the basic functionalities found in the commodity Internet's network infrastructure to a higher level, thus offering higher value functionalities than the standard IP routing functionality that has basically remained unchanged for 2 decades. In this paper, we report on our early experiences in building application-aware components for a multicast communication protocol targeted for providing low latencies and low overheads for applications running on a computational grid. Performance results from both simulations and implementation prototypes confirm that introducing application-aware components at specific location in the network infrastructure can succeed in providing not only performances for the end-users but also new perspectives in building a communication framework for computational grids. \textcopyright Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2002.

Domains: Computer Science [cs]

Moufida Maimour, Cong-Duc Pham. Towards an Application-Aware Multicast Communication Framework for Computational Grids. Advances in Computing Science - ASIAN 2002, Internet Computing and Modeling, Grid Computing, Peer-to-Peer Computing, and Cluster Computing, 7th Asian Computing Science Conference, Hanoi, Vietnam, December 4-6, 2002, Proceedings, 2002, Unknown, Unknown Region. pp.140--152, ⟨10.1007/3-540-36184-7_14⟩. ⟨hal-01912867⟩