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Fast Ethernet (100Base-TX) can provide a low-cost alternative to more esoteric network technologies for high-performance cluster computing. We use a network architecture based on the U-Net approach to implement low-latency and high-bandwidth communication over Fast Ethernet, with performance rivaling (and in some cases exceeding) that of 155 Mbps ATM. U-Net provides protected, user-level access to the network interface and enables application-level round-trip latencies of less than 60μs over Fast Ethernet.
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Welsh, M., Basu, A., von Eicken, T. (1996). Low-latency communication over Fast Ethernet. In: Bougé, L., Fraigniaud, P., Mignotte, A., Robert, Y. (eds) Euro-Par'96 Parallel Processing. Euro-Par 1996. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1123. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-61626-8_24
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