Benchmarking IBM SP1 system for SPMD programming

Author

Cai, Wentong ; Hang, A. ; Varman, Peter

Author_Institution

Sch. of Appl. Sci., Nanyang Technol. Univ., Singapore

fYear

1996

fDate

3-6 Jun 1996

Firstpage

430

Lastpage

437

Abstract

The IBM SP1 is the first member of the IBM Scalable POWERparallel series, a distributed memory parallel computer based on RISC System/6000 processing element. In this paper, the benchmarking exercise of two message passing libraries, MPL and PVM, on the IBM SP1 for SPMD programming is described. We will discuss the benchmarks used in our experiment, and present the results we obtained. Our results indicate that to achieve performance improvement and to reduce the communication overhead, the use of the high performance switch is essential on the IBM SP1 machine

Keywords

distributed memory systems; message passing; parallel processing; performance evaluation; reduced instruction set computing; IBM SP1 system benchmarking; IBM Scalable POWERparallel series; MPL; PVM; RISC System/6000 processing element; SPMD programming; communication overhead; distributed memory parallel computer; high performance switch; message passing libraries; Benchmark testing; Communication switching; Computer aided instruction; Concurrent computing; Distributed computing; Kernel; Message passing; Reduced instruction set computing; Software libraries; Switches;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel and Distributed Systems, 1996. Proceedings., 1996 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Tokyo

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7267-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICPADS.1996.517591

Filename

517591