Evaluating high-throughput reliable multicast for grid applications in production networks

Grid computing can be characterized as a distributed infrastructure that is a collection of computing resources within or across locations that are aggregated to act as a unified processing resource. In some of the anticipated future Grid applications, the same data will be transmitted to multiple sites. It is widely accepted that this can be, in theory, best achieved using reliable multicast protocols. This paper addresses the use of reliable multicast in Grid computing, identifying applications and requirements, and discussing how these requirements are met by the main protocols being standardized by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). The emphasis of the study is on highperformance computing and communication, and on 1-N reliable multicast using the NACK Oriented Reliable Multicast (NORM) protocol family. The two existing implementations are evaluated and compared with TCP, in scenarios that require 1-N transmission of data with a deadline. Unlike other work, our conclusion...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: CCGRID
• Authors: Marinho P. Barcellos, Maziar Nekovee, M. Koyabe, Michael Daw, J. Brooke
• Keywords: CCGRID 2005, Cluster Computing, Grid Computing, Reliable Multicast, Reliable Multicast Protocols