M-VIA on the PowerPC architecture
Nicky Sagitta Hiedajat · 2003
One of the basic principles of cluster communication is to have the smallest cost in the time consumed on delivering messages between nodes. The Virtual Interface Architecture (VIA) is a communication protocol for system area networks (SAN) that bypasses much of the overhead of traditional network protocol stacks and provides more direct access to the network interface controller (NIC). The aim of our research was to investigate if VIA would perform well on PowerPC processors which have a different architecture than the previous processors used with VIA. For that reason, VIA was implemented on PowerPC and new driver support was added. The results indicate that VIA performs better than TCP/IP on large message sizes but not on small message sizes.