ABSTRACT
Christophe Ce´rin LIPN, Universite´ de Paris Nord, 99 avenue J.B. Cle´ment, 93430 Villetaneuse, France
Luiz-Angelo Steffenel CReSTIC, Universite´ de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, BP 1039, 51687 Reims Cedex 2, France
Hazem Fkaier Unite´ de recherche UTIC / ESSTT, 5 avenue Taha Hussein, B.P. 56, Bab Mnara, Tunis, Tunisia & LIPN, Universite´ de Paris-Nord, 99 avenue J.B Cle´ment, 93430 Villetaneuse, France
It is well known that communication affects significantly the performance of applications deployed on large scale architectures. Large scale platforms are characterized by a collection of a great number of computing resources that are geographically distributed over some sites and connected with a wide heterogeneous dedicated network. Since data sizes in Grid applications may be large as well as the number of nodes, the collective communication inherent to the applications is a critical bottleneck.
