Papers on the Nectar System

This page lists papers on the Nectar system. Separate pages list papers on Nectar tools and applications and Gigabit Nectar.

  • E. Arnould, F. Bitz, E. Cooper, H.T. Kung, R. Sansom and P. Steenkiste. The Design of Nectar: a Network Backplane for Heterogeneous Multicomputers. Third International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, Boston, April 1989. Also published as technical report CMU-CS-89-101. postscript, compressed.

  • Eric Cooper, Peter Steenkiste, Robert Sansom, and Brian Zill. Protocol Implementation on the Nectar Communication Processor. ACM SIGCOMM '90 Symposium, Philadelphia, September 1990. Also published as technical report CMU-CS-90-153. postscript, compressed.

  • Peter Steenkiste. A Symmetrical Communication Interface for Distributed Memory Computers. Proceedings of the Sixth Distributed Memory Computing Conference, Portland, April 1991. postscript, compressed.

  • H.T. Kung, Robert Sansom, Steven Schlick, Peter Steenkiste, Matthieu Arnould, Francois J. Bitz, Fred Christianson, Eric C. Cooper, Onat Menzilcioglu, Denise Ombres, Brian Zill. Network-Based Multicomputers: An Emerging Parallel Architecture. Supercomputing '91, Albuquerque, November 1991. postscript, compressed.

  • Peter Steenkiste. Analyzing Communication Latency using the Nectar Communication Processor. ACM SIGCOMM '92 Symposium, Baltimore, Maryland, August 1992. postscript, compressed.

  • Peter Steenkiste. Analyzing Communication Latency using the Nectar Communication Processor. Computer Communications, May 1993. postscript, compressed.

  • Peter Steenkiste. Network-Based Multicomputers: A Practical Supercomputer Architecture. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Volume 7, Number 8, August 1996, pages 861-875. postscript.

  • prs@cs.cmu.edu. Last updated July 1994.