“Researchers will initially work with the Linux operating
system but plan to assist all operating system vendors with
incorporating their improvements.“
“The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center has received $100,000 from
Cisco Systems to support a research project called Web100, the
objective of which is to facilitate network transmission rates of
100 megabits per second. The gift provides initial funding for
research into software that can “tune” computer operating systems
to fully exploit available network bandwidth.”
“Connections across networks are managed by Transfer Control
Protocol (TCP) software and research has shown that, in many cases,
operating systems are configured in ways that can inhibit optimum
TCP performance.”