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Evaluating the Performance of MPI-2 Dynamic Communicators and One-Sided Communication

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Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface (EuroPVM/MPI 2003)

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This paper evaluates the performance of several MPI implementations regarding two chapters of the MPI-2 specification. First, we analyze, whether the performance using dynamically created communicators is comparable to the approach presented in MPI-1 using a static communicator for different MPI libraries. We than evaluate, whether the communication performance of one-sided communication on current machines, represents a benefit or a drawback to the end-user compared to the more conventional two-sided communication.

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Gabriel, E., Fagg, G.E., Dongarra, J.J. (2003). Evaluating the Performance of MPI-2 Dynamic Communicators and One-Sided Communication. In: Dongarra, J., Laforenza, D., Orlando, S. (eds) Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface. EuroPVM/MPI 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2840. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-39924-7_16

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