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SOVIA: A User-level Sockets Layer Over Virtual Interface Architecture

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Jin-Soo Kim,

Kangho Kim,

Sung-In JungAuthors Info & Claims

CLUSTER '01: Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing

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Published: 08 October 2001 Publication History

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The Virtual Interface Architecture (VIA) is an industry standard user-level communication architecture for system area networks. The VIA provides a protected, directly-accessible interface to a network hardware, removing the operating system from the critical communication path. In this paper, we design and implement a user-level Sockets layer over VIA, named SOVIA (Sockets Over VIA). Our objective is to use the SOVIA layer to accelerate the existing Sockets-based applications with a reasonable effort and to provide a portable and high performance communication library based on VIA to the application developers.SOVIA realizes comparable performance to native VIA, showing the minimum latency of 10.5usec and the peak bandwidth of 814Mbps on Giganet's cLAN. We have verified the functional compatibility with the existing Sockets API by porting FTP (File Transfer Protocol) and RPC (Remote Procedure Call) applications over the SOVIA layer. Compared to the Giganet's LANE driver which emulates TCP/IP inside the kernel, SOVIA easily doubles the file transfer bandwidth in FTP and reduces the latency of calling an empty remote procedure by 77% in RPC applications.

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Balaji PBhagvat SJin HPanda D(2006)Asynchronous zero-copy communication for synchronous sockets in the sockets direct protocol (SDP) over InfiniBandProceedings of the 20th international conference on Parallel and distributed processing10.5555/1898699.1898786(271-271)Online publication date: 25-Apr-2006
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Taboada GTourino JDoallo R(2005)Designing Efficient Java Communications on ClustersProceedings of the 19th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS'05) - Workshop 5 - Volume 0610.1109/IPDPS.2005.164Online publication date: 4-Apr-2005
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Huo ZYu YSun N(2005)High Performance Sockets over Kernel Level Virtual Interface ArchitectureProceedings of the Eighth International Conference on High-Performance Computing in Asia-Pacific Region10.1109/HPCASIA.2005.47Online publication date: 30-Nov-2005
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/HPCASIA.2005.47
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SOVIA: A User-level Sockets Layer Over Virtual Interface Architecture
1. Networks
  1. Network protocols
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software organization and properties
    1. Contextual software domains
      1. Operating systems
    2. Software system structures
      1. Distributed systems organizing principles

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CLUSTER '01: Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing

October 2001

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Balaji PBhagvat SJin HPanda D(2006)Asynchronous zero-copy communication for synchronous sockets in the sockets direct protocol (SDP) over InfiniBandProceedings of the 20th international conference on Parallel and distributed processing10.5555/1898699.1898786(271-271)Online publication date: 25-Apr-2006
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Taboada GTourino JDoallo R(2005)Designing Efficient Java Communications on ClustersProceedings of the 19th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS'05) - Workshop 5 - Volume 0610.1109/IPDPS.2005.164Online publication date: 4-Apr-2005
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Huo ZYu YSun N(2005)High Performance Sockets over Kernel Level Virtual Interface ArchitectureProceedings of the Eighth International Conference on High-Performance Computing in Asia-Pacific Region10.1109/HPCASIA.2005.47Online publication date: 30-Nov-2005
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/HPCASIA.2005.47
Kim KKim JJung S(2002)GNBD/VIAProceedings of the 16th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium10.5555/645610.661705Online publication date: 15-Apr-2002
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/645610.661705

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