Active system area networks for data intensive computations. Final report
The goal of the Active System Area Networks (ASAN) project is to develop hardware and software technologies for the implementation of active system area networks (ASANs). The use of the term ''active'' refers to the ability of the network interfaces to perform application-specific as well as system level computations in addition to their traditional role of data transfer. This project adopts the view that the network infrastructure should be an active computational entity capable of supporting certain classes of computations that would otherwise be performed on the host CPUs. The result is a unique network-wide programming model where computations are dynamically placed within the host CPUs or the NIs depending upon the quality of service demands and network/CPU resource availability. The projects seeks to demonstrate that such an approach is a better match for data intensive network-based applications and that the advent of low-cost powerful embedded processors and configurable hardware makes such an approach economically viable and desirable.
- Research Organization:
- Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA (US)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- US Department of Energy (US)
- DOE Contract Number:
- FC02-99ER25402
- OSTI ID:
- 771294
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/ER/25402; TRN: US200306%%551
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: PBD: 1 Apr 2002; PBD: 1 Apr 2002
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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