Performance of the communication layers of TCP/IP with the Myrinet gigabit LAN

A. Barak; I. Gilderman; I. Metrik

doi:10.1016/S0140-3664(99)00071-7

Performance of the communication layers of TCP/IP with the Myrinet gigabit LAN

A. Barak^*
, I. Gilderman
, I. Metrik

^*Corresponding author for this work

The Rachel and Selim Benin School of Engineering and Computer Science

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This paper presents the performance of the Myrinet Gb/s LAN with the TCP/IP communication protocol in a cluster of Pentium based workstations. We systematically measured the bandwidth and latency of the different layers of the TCP/IP software and the Myrinet firmware/hardware, in order to expose bottlenecks in different levels of the communication protocol stack. Our study identified several bottlenecks that could impair the performance of TCP/IP for other Gb/s LANs, e.g. Gigabit Ethernet. The paper presents details of our performance measurements and suggests means to improve the overall performance of the communication subsystem.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	989-997
Number of pages	9
Journal	Computer Communications
Volume	22
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-3664(99)00071-7
State	Published - 15 Jul 1999

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