An evaluation of implementation options for MPI one-sided communication

William Gropp, Rajeev Thakur

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Abstract

MPI defines one-sided communication operations - put, get, and accumulate - together with three different synchronization mechanisms that define the semantics associated with the initiation and completion of these operations. In this paper, we analyze the requirements imposed by the MPI Standard on any implementation of one-sided communication. We discuss options for implementing the synchronization mechanisms and analyze the cost associated with each. An MPI implementer can use this information to select the implementation method that is best suited (has the lowest cost) for a particular machine environment. We also report on experiments we ran on a Linux cluster and a Sun SMP to determine the gap between the performance that could be achievable and what is actually achieved with MPI.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Pages415-424
Number of pages10
DOIs
StatePublished - 2005
Externally publishedYes
Event12th European PVM/MPI Users' Group Meeting - Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface - Sorrento, Italy
Duration: Sep 18 2005Sep 21 2005

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume3666 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Other

Other12th European PVM/MPI Users' Group Meeting - Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface
Country/TerritoryItaly
CitySorrento
Period9/18/059/21/05

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Computer Science(all)

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