
• Hardware components
– Processing cores and memory
subsystem
– I/O bus or links
– Network adapters/switches
• Software components
– Communication stack
• Bottlenecks can artificially
limit the network performance
the user perceives
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Major Components in Computing Systems
P0
Core0
Core1
Core2
Core3
P1
Core0
Core1
Core2
Core3
Memory
Memory
I
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B
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Network Adapter
Network
Switch
Processing
Bottlenecks
I/O Interface
Bottlenecks
Network
Bottlenecks
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