Apologies for cross-posting. Please note the seminar below to be held on the Access Grid. If your node wishes to attend, please reply to me. I will send technical details (e.g. pre-meeting test, virtual venue, presentation media, etc.) to those interested. I *won't* post them to these lists.
Hope to see you there. Mike E-SCIENCE NORTH WEST CENTRE (ESNW) SEMINAR VIA ACCESS GRID Time: 12:30 UTC/GMT List-Post: accessgrid-tech@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Thursday, 9th November 2004 Speakers: Dr Marinho P Barcellos Title: High-Performance Reliable Multicast for Data-Intensive Grid Computing Abstract: Grid computing can be characterized as a distributed infrastructure that is a collection of computing resources within or across locations that are aggregated to act as a unified processing resource. In some of the anticipated future Grid applications, the same data will be transmitted to multiple sites, which can be best achieved using multicast protocols. In this talk I will address the use of reliable multicast in the so-called "data-intensive" Grid applications, identifying requirements and discussing how these requirements are met by the state-of-the-art implementations. These are evaluated and compared with TCP, in scenarios that require high-throughput reliable dissemination. Unlike previous work, the research described considers the use of reliable multicast in high-performance Grid scenarios: it provides a practical comparison of protocols and, to assess their suitability, describes experiments in two real-life network environments relevant to Grid applications, SuperJanet, a high-speed WAN, and a Gigabit LAN. _______________________________________________________ Michael Daw Collaborative Working Developments Team Leader Research Support Services Group Manchester Computing, Kilburn Building, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK Tel: +44 (0)161 275 7026 Fax: +44 (0)161 275 6800/6040 E-mail: michael....@manchester.ac.uk http://www.sve.man.ac.uk/General/Staff/daw _______________________________________________________
