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This project aims to quantify and analyze the performance that can be
achieved with distributed applications, such as NFS, over different
high speed network technologies. The high speed network technologies
being studied include ATM, FDDI, AN1 and 100-BASE T. Ideally the
project would also like to include 100-BASE VG in its comparison. For
for each technology it will analyze the contribution of each component
of the communications path: NFS protocol, UDP, IP, network driver
and operating system, to be able to see what could be done in each
component to improve the overall performance. Recommendations as to
the structure of the protocol stack used for each technology, together
with raw performance data, will be produced.