Cluster-based computing has become an area of serious interest due to the availability of high-end workstation class processors and high-speed networks as commodity components. High performance computing over networked computers is increasingly gaining popularity leading to commodity supercomputing. Computer applications are increasingly making use of multimedia contents rich with data, voice and video. To support cluster computing with multimedia traffic, the networking architecture, which is at the backbone of cluster computing paradigm, needs to support efficient transportation of voice and video in addition to traditional data types at very high speed. Several high speed networking technologies, e.g., Myrinet, Gigabit Ethernet and ATM networks, have emerged in the recent years. The aim of this special issue is to bring together survey and original work from both academia and industry on issues related to cluster computing with high speed networks.

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