Distributed modeling and implementation of high performance communication architectures

High performance distributed computing systems require high performance communication systems. Distributed modeling and implementation of these communication systems is important. Toward this goal, the authors refine the process-to-channel_agent-to-process (PCP) model of asynchronous distributed communication. While the PCP model provides a versatile and succinct mechanism for specifying and comparing different types of channels, it is inherently centralized. The refined model presented here, the process-to-channel_agent-to-channel_agent-to-process (PCCP) communication model, is amenable to distributed modeling and implementation of channels. The usefulness of the PCCP model is demonstrated by presenting a distributed implementation of hierarchical F-channels