Title :
Benchmarking IBM SP1 system for SPMD programming
Author :
Cai, Wentong ; Hang, A. ; Varman, Peter
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Appl. Sci., Nanyang Technol. Univ., Singapore
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;
Conference_Titel :
Parallel and Distributed Systems, 1996. Proceedings., 1996 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Tokyo
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7267-6
DOI :
10.1109/ICPADS.1996.517591
