The Clan Fingon

VIA over the CLAN Network

The Virtual Interface Architecture is an industry standard for high performance networking in system-area networks, and the same model is proposed for Infiniband. Existing implementations suffer from high complexity, and scaling to higher bandwidths and large numbers of endpoints is likely to be problematic. We present a novel implementation of VIA that consists of a thin software layer over th...

CLAN: Closely reLated ApplicatioNs

Although popular text search engines allow users to retrieve similar web pages, source code search engines do not have this feature. Knowing similarity between applications plays an important role in improving understanding and assessing reusability of these applications, rapid prototyping, and discovering code theft and plagiarism. However, detecting similar applications is a notoriously diffi...

The Fundamental Theorem of q-Clan Geometry

Convex Games versus clan Games

In this paper we provide characterizations of convex games and total clan games by using properties of their corresponding marginal games. We show that a “dualize and restrict”procedure transforms total clan games with zero worth for the clan into monotonic convex games. Furthermore, each monotonic convex game generates a total clan game with zero worth for the clan by a “dualize and extend” pr...

Distributed Computing with the CLAN Network

CLAN (Collapsed LAN) is a high performance user-level network targeted at the server room. It presents a simple low-level interface to applications: connection-oriented non-coherent shared memory for data transfer, and Tripwire, a user-level programmable CAM for synchronisation. This simple interface is implemented using only hardware state machines on the NIC, yet is flexible enough to support...