The Design and Evaluation of MPI-Style Web Services

Author

Cooper, Ian ; Walker, Coral Y.

Author_Institution

Cardiff Sch. of Comput. Sci., Cardiff Univ., Cardiff, UK

Volume

2

Issue

3

fYear

2009

Firstpage

197

Lastpage

209

Abstract

In this paper, we introduce MPI-style Web service (MPIWS), a novel service presented as a standard Web service but integrated with MPI programming technologies to allow Web applications to run in parallel over a loosely coupled distributed environment. MPIWS takes advantage of the SOAP communication protocol, and allows direct MPI-style communication among loosely coupled services. The MPI-style communication supported by MPIWS includes both point-to-point and collective communications. In this paper, point-to-point and collective communication operations are evaluated in comparison with mpiJava. The evaluation results demonstrate that although the overhead of SOAP messaging takes a toll on performance, MPIWS is generally comparable with mpiJava sending Object data types, especially for coarse-grain applications, and outperforms mpiJava in some cases.

Keywords

Java; Web services; message passing; Java; MPI-style Web service; SOAP communication protocol; collective communication; loosely coupled distributed environment; message passing; point-to-point communication; Automotive engineering; Boundary conditions; Broadcasting; Buildings; Communication system control; Computer architecture; Concurrent computing; Distributed computing; Engines; Heat engines; Message passing; Parallel programming; Partial differential equations; Simple object access protocol; Web services; XML; MPI; Web services; collective communication.; message passing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Services Computing, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1939-1374

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TSC.2009.15

Filename

5156489