LinuxCon | Presentations

Topic: Networking

PGM: A Reliable General Multicast implementation for the Linux Kernel

Date: 2:30pm, Tuesday, August 10th
Location: Atlantic 2
Speaker: Christoph Lameter, Graphe Inc.
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PGM (Reliable General Multicast) is a protocol in heavy use in the financial industry. Its purpose is to spread time critical information through a network to many endpoints. Read More...

Tutorial: Recent Advances in Network Booting

Date: 10:30am, Wednesday, August 11th
Location: Spectacle (4th Floor)
Speaker: Marty Connor, Etherboot Project
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The proliferation of high-speed wide-area networks coupled with emerging open standards for network attached storage has enabled relocation of traditional workstation hard drives and other bootable media to remote datacenter servers. Recently, advances in network booting technology have made it possible to load operating systems using protocols such as HTTP, iSCSI and AoE, in addition to legacy protocols such as TFTP. Read More...

Networking and Multicore/NUMA - The Last Mile

Date: 2:00pm, Thursday, August 12th
Location: Atlantic 2
Speaker: Herbert Xu, Red Hat
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Much work has been done in the area of multicore and NUMA scalability of the Linux network stack, such as hardware multiqueue support and more recently, software Receive Packet Steering. Read More...