IMPLEMENTATION AND EVALUATION OF MHS PARALLEL-PROCESSING

Recently actual use of the OSI standardized protocols has begun on cli ent-server systems of LANs, and reduction of OSI protocol overheads in high-speed networks has become more important. We studied a parallel- processing architecture for Message Handling System (MHS), which requi res a large amount of protocol processing and is expected to be used w idely. We implemented a prototype MHS server with performance scalable to number of CPUs, by porting an existing MHS software with minimum m odification. This paper reports on the parallel processing scheme, har dware and software architecture of the prototype, as well as evaluatio n of the scheme based on measurement and simulation.