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标题：Architecture and Performance of Dynamic Offloading Mechanism for Maestro2 Cluster Network
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作者：Keiichi Aoki ; Koichi Wada ; Hiroki Maruoka 等
期刊名称：Information and Media Technologies
电子版ISSN：1881-0896
出版年度：2007
卷号：2
期号：4
页码：1093-1102
DOI：10.11185/imt.2.1093
出版社：Information and Media Technologies Editorial Board
摘要：In this paper, an architecture of software environment to offload user-defined software modules to Maestro2 cluster network, named Maestro dynamic offloading mechanism (MDO), is described. Maestro2 is a high-performance network for clusters. The network interface and the switch of Maestro2 have a general-purpose processor tightly coupled with a dedicated communication hardware. MDO enables the users to offload software modules to both the network interface and the switch. MDO includes a wrapper library with which offload modules can be executed on a host machine without rewriting the program. The overhead and the effectiveness of MDO are evaluated by offloading collective communications.