Wide Area Networks (WAN) White Papers
User-Space Auto-Tuning for TCP Flow Control in Computational Grids
Overview With the advent of computational grids, networking performance over the Wide-Area Network (WAN) has become a critical component in the grid infrastructure. Unfortunately, many high-performance grid applications only use a small fraction of their available bandwidth because operating systems and their associated protocol stacks are still tuned for yesterday's network speeds. As a result, network gurus undertake the tedious process of manually tuning system buffers to allow TCP flow control to scale to today's WAN environments. And although recent research has shown how to set the size of these system buffers automatically at connection set-up, the buffer sizes are only appropriate at the beginning of the connection's lifetime.
| Publisher | Reed Elsevier | File Format | |
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| Date Published | March 2004 | ||
| Format | White Papers | ||
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