Jens Kehne, Marius Hillenbrand, Jan Stoess, and Frank Bellosa

Proceedings of the 1st IEEE International Conference on Cloud Networking, Paris, France, November 28-30, 2012

Abstract:

In this paper, we present early experiences with libRIPC, a light-weight communication library for highperformance cloud networks. Coming cloud networks are expected to be tightly interconnected and to show capabilities formerly reserved to high-performance computing. LibRIPC aims to bring the benefits of such architectures to heterogeneous cloud workloads.

LibRIPC was designed for low footprint and easy integration; it supports reconfiguration and mutually untrusted communication partners. LibRIPC offers short and long transmit primitives, which are optimized for control messages and bulk data transfer respectively. Early experiments with a Java-based web server indicate that libRIPC integrates well into typical cloud workloads and brings substantial speedup of at least a factor of three for larger data transfers compared to socket-based TCP/IP communication.

BibTex:

@inproceedings{kehne12remoteipc,
   author = {Kehne, Jens and Hillenbrand, Marius and Stoess, Jan and Bellosa, Frank},
   title = {Light-Weight Remote Communication for High-Performance Cloud Networks},
   booktitle = {Proceedings of the 1st IEEE International Conference on Cloud Networking},
   pages={143-147},
   doi={10.1109/CloudNet.2012.6483669},
   address = {Paris, France},
   year = 2012,
   month = nov # "~28--30",
 }