Bio-Inspired Models of Network, Information, and Computing Systems. 5th International ICST Conference, BIONETICS 2010, Boston, USA, December 1-3, 2010, Revised Selected Papers

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Internet as a Dataflow Computer

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-32615-8_14,
        author={Hiroyuki Ohsaki and Hideaki Suzuki and Hidefumi Sawai},
        title={Internet as a Dataflow Computer},
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        proceedings_a={BIONETICS},
        year={2012},
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        doi={10.1007/978-3-642-32615-8_14}
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  • Hiroyuki Ohsaki
    Hideaki Suzuki
    Hidefumi Sawai
    Year: 2012
    Internet as a Dataflow Computer
    BIONETICS
    Springer
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-32615-8_14
Hiroyuki Ohsaki1,*, Hideaki Suzuki2,*, Hidefumi Sawai2,*
  • 1: Osaka University
  • 2: National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT)
*Contact email: oosaki@ist.osaka-u.ac.jp, suzuki@nict.go.jp, sawai@nict.go.jp

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.