Title :
MPICH performance characteristics and considerations
Author_Institution :
Supercomput. Center, Gen. Atomics, San Diego, CA, USA
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;
Conference_Titel :
MPI Developer's Conference, 1996. Proceedings., Second
Conference_Location :
Notre Dame, IN
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7533-0
DOI :
10.1109/MPIDC.1996.534115
