MPI-FM: High Performance MPI on Workstation Clusters (1997)
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| Venue: | Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing |
| Citations: | 71 - 13 self |
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@ARTICLE{Lauria97mpi-fm:high,
author = {Mario Lauria and Andrew Chien},
title = {MPI-FM: High Performance MPI on Workstation Clusters},
journal = {Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing},
year = {1997},
volume = {40},
pages = {4--18}
}
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Despite the emergence of high speed LANs, the communication performance available to applications on workstation clusters still falls short of that available on MPPs. A new generation of efficient messaging layers is needed to take advantage of the hardware performance and to deliver it to the application level. Communication software is the key element in bridging the communication performance gap separating MPPs and workstation clusters. MPI-FM is a high performance implementation of MPI for networks of workstations connected with a Myrinet network, built on top of the Fast Messages (FM) library. Based on the FM version 1.1 released in Fall 1995, MPI-FM achieves a minimum oneway latency of 19 ¯s and a peak bandwidth of 17.3 MByte/s with common MPI send and receive function calls. A direct comparison using published performance figures shows that MPI-FM running on SPARCstation 20 workstations connected with a relatively inexpensive Myrinet network outperforms the MPI implementations a...
