A comparison of data-parallel collective communication performance and its application

Author

Tanaka, Y. ; Kubota, K. ; Matsuda, M. ; Sato, M. ; Sekiguchi, S.

Author_Institution

Real World Comput. Partnership, Ibaraki, Japan

fYear

1997

fDate

28 Apr-2 May 1997

Firstpage

137

Lastpage

144

Abstract

Collective communications such as broadcast and reduction are commonly used in data parallel programs. It is important to understand the performance of such primitive communications to characterize parallel systems and analyze the performance of parallel applications running on specific parallel systems. We measured the performance of collective communication operations on several multiprocessor systems. In this paper, we report experimental results for collective communication performance on distributed memory systems. We also describe the performance prediction of data parallel programs using the performance of the primitives

Keywords

distributed memory systems; parallel algorithms; parallel programming; software performance evaluation; synchronisation; broadcast; data parallel programs; data-parallel collective communication performance; distributed memory systems; multiprocessor systems; parallel application performance; parallel systems; performance prediction; reduction; synchronization; Broadcasting; Communication system control; Concurrent computing; Databases; Ethernet networks; Laboratories; Network topology; Performance analysis; Switches; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

High Performance Computing on the Information Superhighway, 1997. HPC Asia '97

Conference_Location

Seoul

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7901-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HPC.1997.592137

Filename

592137