Title :
Heterogeneity Issues and Supports in MPI Implementations: An Overview
Author :
Yan-Huang Jiang ; Qiang-Li Zhao ; Yu-Tong Lu ; Xue-jun Yang
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Comput. Sci., Nat. Univ. of Defense Technol., Changsha, China
Abstract :
Diverse computers interconnected via mixed network equipments are commonly available parallel architecture now, and achieve good performance/price ratio. As an important parallel communication tool, MPI system is a natural choice to support heterogeneous computing platform. The paper classifies the definition of heterogeneity into three categories, and presents the issues of them in detail respectively. Then overviews the heterogeneous support in eight MPI implementations. Comparison and analysis results are given from several aspects at last.
Keywords :
message passing; parallel architectures; MPI implementation heterogeneity issue; diverse computers interconnected via mixed network equipment; good performance; heterogeneous computing platform support; parallel architecture; parallel communication tool; price ratio; Computer errors; Computer networks; Concurrent computing; Distributed computing; Grid computing; High performance computing; Message passing; Parallel architectures; Protocols; Supercomputers; High Performance Computing (HPC); Message Passing Interface (MPI); data representation; heterogeneity;
Conference_Titel :
Grid and Cooperative Computing, 2009. GCC '09. Eighth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Lanzhou, Gansu
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3766-5
DOI :
10.1109/GCC.2009.56
