CellPilot: A Seamless Communication Solution for Hybrid Cell Clusters

Author

Girard, N. ; Gardner, W.B. ; Carter, J. ; Grewal, G.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada

fYear

2011

fDate

13-16 Sept. 2011

Firstpage

259

Lastpage

268

Abstract

The Cell Pilot library provides a comprehensive inter process communication solution for parallel programming in Con clusters comprised of Cell BE and other computers. It extends the process/channel approach of the existing Pilot library to cover processes running on Cell PPEs and SPEs. The same simple API is used to read and write messages on channels defined between pairs of processes regardless of location, while hiding communication details from the user. Cell Pilot uses MPI for inter-node communication, and the Cell SDK within a Cell node.

Keywords

application program interfaces; message passing; parallel programming; software engineering; API; C on clusters; MPI; cell PPE; cell SDK; cell SPE; cell broadband engine; cell node; cell pilot library; comprehensive interprocess communication solution; hybrid cell clusters; internode communication; parallel programming; process-channel approach; seamless communication solution; software development kit; Computational modeling; Computer architecture; Helium; Libraries; Microprocessors; Programming; Tiles; Cell Broadband Engine; MPI; high-performance computing; parallel programming;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel Processing Workshops (ICPPW), 2011 40th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Taipei City

ISSN

1530-2016

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1337-8

Electronic_ISBN

1530-2016

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICPPW.2011.61

Filename

6047300