Alves, AlbanoPina, AntónioRufino, JoséExposto, José2009-03-272009-03-272003Alves, Albano; Pina, António; Rufino, José; Exposto, José (2003). RoCL: a resource oriented communication library. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. ISSN 1611-3349. 2970 p. 969-9790302-9743http://hdl.handle.net/10198/1135RoCL is a communication library that aims to exploit the low-level communication facilities of today’s cluster networking hardware and to merge, via the resource oriented paradigm, those facilities and the high-level degree of parallelism achieved on SMP systems through multi-threading. The communication model defines three major entities – contexts, resources and buffers – which permit the design of high-level solutions. A low-level distributed directory is used to support resource registering and discovering. The usefulness and applicability of RoCL is briefly addressed through a basic modelling example – the implementation of TPVM over RoCL. Performance results for Myrinet and Gigabit Ethernet, currently supported in RoCL through GM and MVIA, respectively, are also presented.engCluster computingMessage-passingDirectoryMulti-threadingjournal articleLecture Notes in Computer Science