The Internet Backplane Protocol: A Study in Resource Sharing

Alessandro Bassi, Micah Beck, Graham Fagg, Terry Moore, James S. Plank, Martin Swany, and Rich Wolski.

International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid, Berlin, Germany, May, 2002.

Available via anonymous ftp to cs.utk.edu in:

pub/plank/papers/CC-GRID-02.pdf

Abstract

In this work we present the Internet Backplane Protocol (IBP), a middleware created to allow the sharing of storage resources, implemented as part of the network fabric. IBP allows an application to control intermediate data staging operations explicitly. As IBP follows a very simple philosophy, very similar to the Internet Protocol, and the resulting semantic might be too weak for some applications, we introduce the exNode, a data structure that aggregates storage allocations on the Internet.

Citation Information

Plain Text:

title           The Internet Backplane Protocol: A Study in Resource Sharing
author          A. Bassi and M. Beck and G. Fagg and T. Moore and
                J. S. Plank and M. Swany and R. Wolski.
booktitle       International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the
                Grid
address         Berlin, Germany
month           May
year            2002

Bibtex:

@INPROCEEDINGS{bbf:02:ibp,
        title = "The Internet Backplane Protocol: A Study in Resource Sharing",
        author = "A. Bassi and M. Beck and G. Fagg and T. Moore and
                J. S. Plank and M. Swany and R. Wolski.",
        booktitle = "International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the
                Grid",
        address = "Berlin, Germany",
        month = "May",
        year = "2002",
        where = "http://web.eecs.utk.edu/~jplank/plank/papers/CC-GRID-02.html"
}