Hector: automated task allocation for MPI

Author

Russ, Samuel H. ; Flachs, Brian ; Robinson, Jonathan ; Heckel, Bjorn

Author_Institution

Mississippi State Univ., MS, USA

fYear

1996

fDate

15-19 Apr 1996

Firstpage

344

Lastpage

348

Abstract

Many institutions already have networks of workstations, which could potentially be harnessed as a powerful parallel processing resource. A new, automatic task allocation system has been built on top of MPI, an environment that permits parallel programming by using the message-passing paradigm and implemented in extensions to C and FORTRAN. This system, known as “Hector”, supports dynamic migration of tasks and automatic run-time performance optimization. MPI programs can be run without modification under Hector and can be run on existing networks of workstations. Thus Hector permits institutions to harness existing computational resources quickly and transparently

Keywords

local area networks; message passing; multiprocessing systems; parallel programming; resource allocation; software performance evaluation; C; FORTRAN; Hector; MPI; automated task allocation; automatic run-time performance optimization; computational resources; message-passing; multiprocessing systems; parallel processing; parallel programming; task migration; workstation networks; Computational modeling; Computer networks; Concurrent computing; Hardware; Optimization; Parallel processing; Parallel programming; Power engineering and energy; Power engineering computing; Runtime; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel Processing Symposium, 1996., Proceedings of IPPS '96, The 10th International

Conference_Location

Honolulu, HI

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7255-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IPPS.1996.508080

Filename

508080