Title :
SCTP-based middleware for MPI in wide-area networks
Author :
Kamal, H. ; Penoff, B. ; Wagner, A.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., British Columbia Univ., Vancouver, BC, Canada
Abstract :
SCTP (stream control transmission protocol) is a recently standardized transport level protocol that has several features not present in TCP. These features make SCTP a better transport level protocol to support MPI (message passing interface). MPI is a message passing library that is widely used to parallelize scientific and compute intensive programs. Recently there has been interest in porting MPI programs to execute in a wide area network. We evaluated the use of SCTP and designed and modified a public domain version of the MPI middleware to use SCTP. We describe the advantages and disadvantages of SCTP and describe the changes that were necessary to the MPI middleware.
Keywords :
message passing; middleware; public domain software; transport protocols; wide area networks; MPI middleware; SCTP; intensive program computing; message passing interface; public domain version; standardized transport protocol; stream control transmission protocol; wide area network; Computer science; Concurrent computing; Fault tolerance; Intelligent networks; Libraries; Message passing; Middleware; Telecommunication network reliability; Transport protocols; Wide area networks; MPI; Message-passing; Middleware; Protocol; SCTP; Wide Area Network;
Conference_Titel :
Communication Networks and Services Research Conference, 2005. Proceedings of the 3rd Annual
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2333-1
DOI :
10.1109/CNSR.2005.56
