Abstract
ARMI is a communication library that provides a framework for expressing fine-grain parallelism and mapping it to a particular machine using shared-memory and message passing library calls. The library is an advanced implementation of the RMI protocol and handles low-level details such as scheduling incoming communication and aggregating outgoing communication to coarsen parallelism when necessary. These details can be tuned for different platforms to allow user codes to achieve the highest performance possible without manual modification. ARMI is used by STAPL, our generic parallel library, to provide a portable, user transparent communication layer. We present the basic design as well as the mechanisms used in the current Pthreads/OpenMP, MPI implementations and/or a combination thereof. Performance comparisons between ARMI and explicit use of Pthreads or MPI are given on a variety of machines, including an HP V2200, SGI Origin 3800, IBM Regatta-HPC and IBM RS6000 SP cluster.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages | 230-241 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| State | Published - 2003 |
| Externally published | Yes |
| Event | 2003 ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming - San Diego, CA, United States Duration: Jun 11 2003 → Jun 13 2003 |
Conference
| Conference | 2003 ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming |
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| Country/Territory | United States |
| City | San Diego, CA |
| Period | 6/11/03 → 6/13/03 |
Keywords
- Communication library
- MPI
- OpenMP
- Parallel programming
- Pthreads
- RMI
- RPC
- Run-time system
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Computer Science