Since ATM network is a connection-oriented network, the operation for connectionless service is required for data service in it. There are many ways to support connectionless service in ATM network. They are ATM LAN Emulation, Classical IP and ARP over ATM, Indirect approach, Direct approach, and IP switch. It is known that Direct approach is suited for public network. The connectionless server supports connectionless service in Direct approach. There have been presented two kinds of methods, that is, streaming forwarding method and reassembly forwarding method, to forward the frames in the connectionless server. Reassembly forwarding method can work well with AAL5 which has better efficient characteristics than AAL3/4 in terms of easy use and fewer overheads. This paper proposes an algorithm that can decrease the loss of frame by a proposed buffer management working with AAL5. This paper also investigates the structure of the proposed connectionless server and its performance with the one of the conventional connectionless server through simulations. The proposed connectionless server shows a less frame loss and transfer delay than that of the conventional connectionless server.

We discuss a new high performance computing service (HPCS) platform that has been developed to provide domain-neutral computing service under the governmental support from “EDucation-research Integration through Simulation On the Net” (EDISON) project. With a first focus on technical features, we not only present in-depth explanations of the implementation details, but also describe the strengths of the EDISON platform against the successful nanoHUB.org gateway. To validate the performance and utility of the platform, we provide benchmarking results for the resource virtualization framework, and prove the stability and promptness of the EDISON platform in processing simulation requests by analyzing several statistical datasets obtained from a three-month trial service in the initiative area of computational nanoelectronics. We firmly believe that this work provides a good opportunity for understanding the science gateway project ongoing for the first time in Republic of Korea, and that the technical details presented here can be served as an useful guideline for any potential designs of HPCS platforms.