Tigris: a Java-based Cluster I/O System

Matt Welsh

EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley

Technical Report No. UCB/CSD-00-1095

2000

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We present Tigris, a high-performance computation and I/O substrate for clusters of workstations, implemented entirely in Java. Tigris automatically balances resource load across the cluster as a whole, shielding applications from asymmetries in CPU, I/O, and network performance. This is accomplished through the use of a dataflow programming model coupled with a work-balancing distributed queue. To meet the performance challenges of implementing such a system in Java, we present Jaguar, a system which enables direct, protected access to hardware resources (such as fast network interfaces and disk I/O) from Java. Jaguar yields an order-of-magnitude performance boost over the Java Native Interface for Java bindings to system resources. We demonstrate the applicability of Tigris through TigrisSort, a one-pass, parallel, disk-to-disk sort exhibiting high performance.

BibTeX citation:

@techreport{Welsh:CSD-00-1095,
    Author= {Welsh, Matt},
    Title= {Tigris: a Java-based Cluster I/O System},
    Year= {2000},
    Url= {http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2000/6421.html},
    Number= {UCB/CSD-00-1095},
    Abstract= {We present Tigris, a high-performance computation and I/O substrate for clusters of workstations, implemented entirely in Java. Tigris automatically balances resource load across the cluster as a whole, shielding applications from asymmetries in CPU, I/O, and network performance. This is accomplished through the use of a dataflow programming model coupled with a work-balancing distributed queue. To meet the performance challenges of implementing such a system in Java, we present Jaguar, a system which enables direct, protected access to hardware resources (such as fast network interfaces and disk I/O) from Java. Jaguar yields an order-of-magnitude performance boost over the Java Native Interface for Java bindings to system resources. We demonstrate the applicability of Tigris through TigrisSort, a one-pass, parallel, disk-to-disk sort exhibiting high performance.},
}

EndNote citation:

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