Grid Gateway: Message-Passing between Separated Cluster Interconnects

Geographically distributed computing requires high-performance clusters to be integrated to solve problems in computational Grid. Because cluster interconnect is isolated, its low-level communication protocol doesn’t exchange messages with others directly. This paper presents a plug-in, Grid Gateway, which enables separated low-level communication protocols to communicate with each other. Grid Gateway can be used in many topologies of inter-cluster network. It has some dynamic features, such as support for multi-gateway mechanism to enhance communication performance. Grid Gateway allows low-level communication protocol to involve in the high-performance Grid computing. Thus it is expected to support the implementation of Grid-enabled tools over it, such as Grid-enabled MPI. This paper describes its architecture and implementation, and presents some design issues.

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