Research Article
Internet as a Dataflow Computer
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-32615-8_14, author={Hiroyuki Ohsaki and Hideaki Suzuki and Hidefumi Sawai}, title={Internet as a Dataflow Computer}, proceedings={Bio-Inspired Models of Network, Information, and Computing Systems. 5th International ICST Conference, BIONETICS 2010, Boston, USA, December 1-3, 2010, Revised Selected Papers}, proceedings_a={BIONETICS}, year={2012}, month={10}, keywords={}, doi={10.1007/978-3-642-32615-8_14} }- Hiroyuki Ohsaki
Hideaki Suzuki
Hidefumi Sawai
Year: 2012
Internet as a Dataflow Computer
BIONETICS
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-32615-8_14
Abstract
This paper proposes a novel dataflow architecture called , which realizes a scalable dynamic dataflow computer on a packet switching network. A vast amount of research on dataflow computers has been extensively performed during, in particular, 1970s and 1980s as a promising approach for realizing very high-speed computers. In spite of the large amount of expectations, success of dataflow computer researches is quite limited. The objective of this paper is to present the concept of a scalable and extensible dataflow architecture on a packet switching network, which utilizes the abundant resources of a large-scale computer network. In this paper, we introduce the concept of DFNET (DataFlow architecture on the interNET). DFNET is composed of configuration and control methodologies of routers in a packet switching network. The key of DFNET is that a packet switching network is utilized not for but for . Because of desirable properties of a packet switching network, DFNET has high scalability in terms of the dataflow program size and high robustness against failures.
