Title :
Communication middleware systems for heterogeneous clusters: a comparative study
Author :
Balkanski, Daniel ; Trams, Mario ; Rehm, Wolfgang
Author_Institution :
Fakultat fur Informatik, Technische Univ. Chemnitz, Germany
Abstract :
This paper presents a comparative study of the communication middleware systems suitable for aggregating computational clusters with heterogeneous incompatible SANs into a common cluster of clusters (CoC). Being interested mainly in solutions providing the programmer with some single, portable and widely accepted parallel programming model like the message passing interface (MPI), we have narrowed down our choices to a few alternatives: PACX, MPI, MPICH-Madeleine III and MPICH-G2. besides a brief overview of these three alternatives the paper presents our experiences and benchmark results by using two of them: PACX-MPI and MPICH/Madeleine III in the heterogeneous CoC setup consisting of two subclusters equipped with Myrinet, SCI, and Gigabit Ethernet.
Keywords :
message passing; middleware; network operating systems; parallel programming; storage area networks; workstation clusters; Gigabit Ethernet; MPI; MPICH-G2; MPICH-Madeleine III; Myrinet; PACX; SCI; cluster of clusters; communication middleware systems; computational clusters; heterogeneous CoC setup; heterogeneous clusters; message passing interface; parallel programming model; Aggregates; Application software; Ethernet networks; Joining processes; Libraries; Message passing; Middleware; Network interfaces; Network operating systems; Parallel programming; Programming profession;
Conference_Titel :
Cluster Computing, 2003. Proceedings. 2003 IEEE International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2066-9
DOI :
10.1109/CLUSTR.2003.1253359
