MPICH on the T3D: a case study of high performance message passing

Author

Brightwell, Ron ; Skjellum, Anthony

Author_Institution

Integrated Concurrent & Distributed Computation Res. Lab., Mississippi State Univ., MS, USA

fYear

1996

fDate

1-2 Jul 1996

Firstpage

2

Lastpage

9

Abstract

The paper describes the design, implementation and performance of a port of the Argonne National Laboratory/Mississippi State University MPICH implementation of the Message Passing Interface standard to the Cray T3D massively parallel processing system. A description of the factors influencing the design and the various stages of implementation are presented. Performance results revealing superior bandwidth and comparable latency as compared to other full message passing systems on the T3D are shown. Further planned improvements and optimizations, including an analysis of a port to the T3E, are mentioned

Keywords

application program interfaces; message passing; multiprocessing systems; parallel architectures; parallel machines; software performance evaluation; software portability; utility programs; Argonne National Laboratory/Mississippi State University MPICH port; Cray T3D massively parallel processing system; Message Passing Interface standard; T3D; T3E; bandwidth; high performance message passing; latency; message passing systems; optimizations; performance evaluation; Bandwidth; Computer aided software engineering; Computer bugs; Computer interfaces; Concurrent computing; Design engineering; Distributed computing; Engines; Laboratories; Message passing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

MPI Developer's Conference, 1996. Proceedings., Second

Conference_Location

Notre Dame, IN

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7533-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MPIDC.1996.534088

Filename

534088