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HPCA
1996
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Protected, User-Level DMA for the SHRIMP Network Interface
Traditional DMA requires the operating system to perform many tasks to initiate a transfer, with overhead on the order of hundreds or thousands of CPU instructions. This paper des...
Matthias A. Blumrich, Cezary Dubnicki, Edward W. F...
ISPAN
2000
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
User Level Communication on Alpha Linux Systems
Recent advances in commodity network interface technology enable scientists and engineers to build clusters of workstations or PCs to execute parallel applications. However, raw-h...
Jie Chen, William A. Watson III
HPCA
1997
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
ATM and Fast Ethernet Network Interfaces for User-Level Communication
Fast Ethernet and ATM are two attractive network technologies for interconnecting workstation clusters for parallel and distributed computing. This paper compares network interfac...
Matt Welsh, Anindya Basu, Thorsten von Eicken
HPCA
1998
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
The Impact of Data Transfer and Buffering Alternatives on Network Interface Design
The explosive growth in the performance of microprocessors and networks has created a new opportunity to reduce the latency of fine-grain communication. Microprocessor clock speed...
Shubhendu S. Mukherjee, Mark D. Hill
IPPS
1996
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Software Support for Virtual Memory-Mapped Communication
Virtual memory-mapped communication (VMMC) is a communication model providing direct data transfer between the sender's and receiver's virtual address spaces. This model...
Cezary Dubnicki, Liviu Iftode, Edward W. Felten, K...