Adaptive strategy for one-sided communication in MPICH2

Xin Zhao, Gopalakrishnan Santhanaraman, William Gropp

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Abstract

The one-sided communication model supported by MPI-2 can be more convenient to use than the regular two-sided communication model and has potential to provide better performance. The MPI-2 standard gives flexibility about when RMA operations can be issued and completed. The current MPICH2 implementation employs a lazy approach, in which operations are queued up and issued in the later synchronization phase. This has certain benefits for small data transfers because of reduced network operations, but for large data transfers, issuing operations in an eager fashion could achieve better performance. In this paper we describe our design and implementation of an adaptive strategy for one-sided operations and synchronization mechanisms (fence, post-start-complete-wait, lock-unlock) supported by MPI-2, which combines benefits from both lazy and eager approaches. Our performance results demonstrate that our approach performs as well as the lazy approach for small data transfers and achieves similar performance as the eager approach for large data transfers. In addition, it achieves good overlap of communication with computation.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationRecent Advances in the Message Passing Interface - 19th European MPI Users' Group Meeting, EuroMPI 2012, Proceedings
Pages16-26
Number of pages11
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012
Event19th European MPI Users' Group Meeting on Recent Advances in the Message Passing Interface, EuroMPI 2012 - Vienna, Austria
Duration: Sep 23 2012Sep 26 2012

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume7490 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Other

Other19th European MPI Users' Group Meeting on Recent Advances in the Message Passing Interface, EuroMPI 2012
Country/TerritoryAustria
CityVienna
Period9/23/129/26/12

Keywords

  • MPI implementation
  • MPI-2
  • One-sided communication
  • adaptive strategy

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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