Optimizations of Client's side communications in a Distributed File System within a Myrinet Cluster

Brice Goglin 1, 2 Loïc Prylli 1, 2 Olivier Glück 1, 2
1 RESO - Protocols and softwares for very high-performance network
Inria Grenoble - Rhône-Alpes, ENS Lyon - École normale supérieure - Lyon, CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique : UMR5668
2 LIP - Laboratoire de l'Informatique du Parallélisme
Abstract : This paper presents a study of the interaction between high-speed interconnects and a distributed file system client. We use our remote file access protocol and network with the software layer to show how the highly specific programming model of high-speed interconnects may be used in a high performance distributed file system client. We present both a user-level and a kernel-level client implementations with either buffered or non-buffered accesses. These implementations show high performances and may be transparently used by applications. Our improvements focus on pin-down cache techniques and memory registration issues. Our modifications show no impact on its performances while the network usage in the distributed file system client is improved.
Keywords : CLUSTER MEMORY REGISTRATION MYRINET LINUX HIGH-SPEED LOCAL NETWORK DISTRIBUTED FILE SYSTEM
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Brice Goglin, Loïc Prylli, Olivier Glück. Optimizations of Client's side communications in a Distributed File System within a Myrinet Cluster. Workshop on High-Speed Local Networks (HSLN), held in conjunction with the 29th IEEE LCN Conference, Nov 2004, Tampa, United States. pp.726-733, ⟨10.1109/LCN.2004.92⟩. ⟨inria-00071414⟩

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