High Performance Distributed Computing in
Fddi Networks · 1991
As more and more Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI) products burst onto the marketplace, the use of distributed processing application tools increases. Two of the most mature and widely used of these tools are HewlettPackard‘s remote procedure call service, Network Computing System (NCS), and SUN Microsystem’s file service, Network File System (NFS). With the explosion of distributed applications based on these tools, network performance of FDDI speeds will be critical. FDDI has the potential to provide the bandwidth requirements for these applications, but to truly deliver this potential and achieve high performance distributed computing in FDDI networks, several factors will need to be considered. Among these factors are FDDI topologies, network protocol and FDDI station design issues for achieving high performance, and the design of distributed processing tools to utilize the dual ring (200 Mb/s) bandwidth potential of FDDI. FDDI’s basic topology is a ‘dual ring of trees’ with sta