Paper Info
Title
Enabling Wide Area Single System Image Experimentation on the GENI Platform
Abstract
The Single System Image (SSI) clustering technology hides the distributed nature of the participating resources, and makes them appear as a single homogeneous computing resource to the user. An SSI cluster can utilize all the available processing power and memory from its participating resources. However, using the current implementations, an SSI can only be formed using nodes which are within one-hop distance of each other. This implies that nodes have to be within the same broadcast domain / Local Area Network (LAN) in order to participate in an SSI cluster. This limits the full potential of SSIs. In this research, we propose enhancements to the existing SSI technology to overcome the one-hop limitation, thus enabling nodes over a WAN to form SSI clusters. GENI provides a perfect platform for such experimentation. In this paper, we report our initial success in enabling Transparent Interprocess Communication Protocol (TIPC) over wide area nodes in GENI and progress in backporting the TIPC 2.0 protocol, with support for communication over WANs, to Kerrighed, an open-source software for creating SSIs.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/GREE.2013.27
GREE
Keywords
Field
DocType
ssi cluster,one-hop distance,one-hop limitation,existing ssi technology,available processing power,geni platform,clustering technology hide,enabling wide area single,system image experimentation,local area network,transparent interprocess communication protocol,single system image,enabling node,lan,broadcast domain,linux,kernel,tipc,image processing,protocols,local area networks,media
Kerrighed,Single system image,Broadcast domain,Computer science,Computer network,Software,Inter-process communication,Local area network,Cluster analysis,TIPC
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
3
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Lokesh Mandvekar100.68
Chunming Qiao23971400.49
Mohammad Iftekhar Husain3477.28