Publish-subscribe for high-performance computing
Greg Eisenhauer, Fabián Bustamante and Karsten Schwan
IEEE Internet Computing - Special Asynchronous Middleware and Services, 10(1): 8-25, January/February 2006.
College of Computing
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA 30332, USA
eisen@cc.gatech.edu , schwan@cc.gatech.edu
EECS Department
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL 60201, USA
fabianb@cs.northwestern.edu
Abstract
High-performance computing could significantly benefit from publish-subscribe communication, but current systems don't deliver the kind of performance required by applications in that domain. In response, the authors developed Echo, a high-performance event-delivery middleware designed to scale to the data rates typically found in grid environments.This article provides an overview of Echo, the infrastructure on which it's built, and the techniques used to implement it.