Efficient reliable multicast on Myrinet

The paper describes a reliable multicast algorithm on top of reliable point-to-point communication. The algorithm uses a flow control method based on a credit scheme to prevent message loss caused by overflow of software buffers. The multicast algorithm has been implemented by extending the Illinois...

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Published inProceedings of the 1996 ICPP Workshop on Challenges for Parallel Processing Vol. 3; pp. 156 - 165 vol.3
Main Authors Verstoep, K., Langendoen, K., Bal, H.
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 1996
Subjects
Communication system control
Delay
Hardware
Mathematics
Multicast algorithms
Multicast protocols
Parallel processing
Scalability
Telecommunication network reliability
Unicast
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ISBN9780818676239
081867623X
ISSN0190-3918
DOI10.1109/ICPP.1996.538571

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Summary:The paper describes a reliable multicast algorithm on top of reliable point-to-point communication. The algorithm uses a flow control method based on a credit scheme to prevent message loss caused by overflow of software buffers. The multicast algorithm has been implemented by extending the Illinois Fast Messages software for Myrinet, which supports reliable point-to-point communication but no multicast. To obtain low latency and high throughput, forwarding of messages is handled entirely by the network adapter boards without involving the hosts. Measurements on an 8-node Myrinet system show that the implementation achieves high performance.
ISBN:9780818676239
081867623X
ISSN:0190-3918
DOI:10.1109/ICPP.1996.538571