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Federated Grid Clusters Using Service Address Routed Optical Networks

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Overview Clusters of computers have emerged as cost-effective parallel and/or distributed computing systems for computationally intensive tasks. Normally, clusters are composed of high performance computational nodes linked together by low-latency/high-bandwidth interconnection networks. With the advent of modern optical networking technologies, geographically distant clusters can be federated to yield systems considered tightly-coupled. By using Service Address Routed (SAR) optical networks, cluster federations are shown to be effective in dealing with complex scientific computations in a manner that is transparent to the user. The analysis of such federated clusters is carried out using a discrete event simulator.

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Publisher	Reed Elsevier	File Format	PDF
Date Published	May 2007
Format	White Papers
Topics	Optical Networking, High Availability

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