MPICH performance characteristics and considerations

Author

Frost, Richard

Author_Institution

Supercomput. Center, Gen. Atomics, San Diego, CA, USA

fYear

1996

fDate

1-2 Jul 1996

Firstpage

199

Lastpage

202

Abstract

A study of the Argonne National Laboratory/Mississippi State University “MPICH” implementation of MPI is presented. The performance of point-to-point communications on clusters, MPPs, networks of workstations, and SMPs is given. Performance strategies for a range of application and architecture characteristics are discussed. Experiences installing MPICH on these architectures are also discussed

Keywords

application program interfaces; local area networks; message passing; multiprocessing systems; parallel architectures; parallel programming; software performance evaluation; software portability; utility programs; workstations; Argonne National Laboratory/Mississippi State University MPICH implementation; MPI; MPICH performance characteristics; Message Passing Interface; SMP; application characteristics; architecture characteristics; massively parallel processors; performance strategies; point-to-point communication; workstation clusters; workstation networks; Computer architecture; Ethernet networks; Performance evaluation; Protocols; Runtime; Sun; Supercomputers; Switches; Testing; Workstations;

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.1996.534115

Filename

534115