Push-Pull Messaging: A High-Performance Communication Mechanism for Commodity SMP Clusters (1999)
| Venue: | Proc. of International Conference on Parallel Processing |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{And99push-pullmessaging:,
author = {Kwan-Po Wong And and Kwan-po Wong and Cho-li Wang},
title = {Push-Pull Messaging: A High-Performance Communication Mechanism for Commodity SMP Clusters},
booktitle = {Proc. of International Conference on Parallel Processing},
year = {1999},
pages = {12--19}
}
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Abstract
Push-Pull Messaging is a novel messaging mechanism for high-speed interprocess communication in a cluster of symmetric multi-processors (SMP) machines. This messaging mechanism exploits the parallelism in SMP nodes by allowing the execution of communication stages of a messaging event on different processors to achieve maximum performance. Some optimizing techniques were implemented along with Push-Pull Messaging to further improve its performance. Cross-space Zero Buffer provides a unified buffer management mechanism to achieve a copy-less communication for the data transfer among processes within a SMP node. Address Translation Overhead Masking removes the address translation overhead from the critical path in the internode communication. Push-andAcknowledge Overlapping overlaps the push and acknowledge phases to hide the acknowledge latency. Push-Pull Messaging effectively utilizes the system resources. It has been implemented to support high-speed communication for connecting quad ...
