A study on a data dissemination mechanism for Grid evnironment

Abstract

Nowadays as many Grid communities appears, the requirement of a singlepoint-to-multipoint data transfer in Grid environment is growing. In a typical LAN or a special purpose network environment, the multicast technology has been used in such data dissemination transfer cases. However, the multicast transfer is not able to get the high-performance like a unicast transfer, and the obligation of a special hardware setting makes it difficult to implement in a common Grid environment. Therefore, in this paper we propose an effective data dissemination mechanism for Grid environments named DDiG(Data Dissemination mechanism for Grid).