The design for a high performance MPI implementation on the Myrinet network (1999)
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@MISC{Prylli99thedesign,
author = {Loic Prylli and Bernard Tourancheau and Roland Westrelin},
title = {The design for a high performance MPI implementation on the Myrinet network},
year = {1999}
}
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Abstract
. We present our MPI-BIP implementation, designed for Myrinet networks, and based on MPICH. By using our Basic Interface for Parallelism: BIP software layer, we obtain in this implementation of the MPI protocols results close to the peak hardware performance of the high speed Myrinet network. We present the protocols we used to implement the MPI semantics, and the overall design of the implementation. We, then, present benchmarks and application results to show that this design leads to parallel multicomputer-like throughput and latency on a cluster of PC workstations. 1 Introduction In the last decade, researchers tried to use COWs (Cluster Of Workstations) as parallel computers. These clusters are typically connected by Ethernet networks and are often programmed with communication libraries like PVM (Parallel Virtual Machine [6]), or MPI over IP (Internet Protocol). There is two bottlenecks in these solutions that can restrict application programmers to coarse grain paral...
