Writing parallel libraries with MPI - Common practice, issues, and extensions

Torsten Hoefler; Marc Snir

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-24449-0_45

Writing parallel libraries with MPI - Common practice, issues, and extensions

Torsten Hoefler, Marc Snir

Computer Science

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Modular programming is an important software design concept. We discuss principles for programming parallel libraries, show several successful library implementations, and introduce a taxonomy for existing parallel libraries. We derive common requirements that parallel libraries pose on the programming framework. We then show how those requirements are supported in the Message Passing Interface (MPI) standard. We also note several potential pitfalls for library implementers using MPI. Finally, we conclude with a discussion of state-of-the art of parallel library programming and we provide some guidelines for library designers.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Recent Advances in the Message Passing Interface - 18th European MPI Users' Group Meeting, EuroMPI 2011, Proceedings
Pages	345-355
Number of pages	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24449-0_45
State	Published - 2011
Event	18th European Message Passing Interface Users' Group Meeting, EuroMPI 2011 - Santorini, Greece Duration: Sep 18 2011 → Sep 21 2011

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Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	6960 LNCS
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

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Other	18th European Message Passing Interface Users' Group Meeting, EuroMPI 2011
Country/Territory	Greece
City	Santorini
Period	9/18/11 → 9/21/11

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Hoefler, T., & Snir, M. (2011). Writing parallel libraries with MPI - Common practice, issues, and extensions. In Recent Advances in the Message Passing Interface - 18th European MPI Users' Group Meeting, EuroMPI 2011, Proceedings (pp. 345-355). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 6960 LNCS). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24449-0_45

Writing parallel libraries with MPI - Common practice, issues, and extensions. / Hoefler, Torsten; Snir, Marc.

Recent Advances in the Message Passing Interface - 18th European MPI Users' Group Meeting, EuroMPI 2011, Proceedings. 2011. p. 345-355 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 6960 LNCS).

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Hoefler, T & Snir, M 2011, Writing parallel libraries with MPI - Common practice, issues, and extensions. in Recent Advances in the Message Passing Interface - 18th European MPI Users' Group Meeting, EuroMPI 2011, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 6960 LNCS, pp. 345-355, 18th European Message Passing Interface Users' Group Meeting, EuroMPI 2011, Santorini, Greece, 9/18/11. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24449-0_45

Hoefler T, Snir M. Writing parallel libraries with MPI - Common practice, issues, and extensions. In Recent Advances in the Message Passing Interface - 18th European MPI Users' Group Meeting, EuroMPI 2011, Proceedings. 2011. p. 345-355. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)). doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-24449-0_45

Hoefler, Torsten ; Snir, Marc. / Writing parallel libraries with MPI - Common practice, issues, and extensions. Recent Advances in the Message Passing Interface - 18th European MPI Users' Group Meeting, EuroMPI 2011, Proceedings. 2011. pp. 345-355 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).

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