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A flexible intermediate library named Stampi realizes seamless MPI operations on interconnected parallel computers. In message transfer of Stampi, a vendor-supplied MPI library and TCP sockets are used selectively among MPI processes. Its router process mechanism hides a complex network configuration in message transfer among computers. Besides, dynamic process creation and MPI-I/O are also available. With the help of its flexible communication mechanism, users can execute MPI functions without awareness of underlying communication and I/O mechanisms. To realize distributed I/O operations with high performance, a Parallel Virtual File System (PVFS) has been introduced in the MPI-I/O mechanism of Stampi. Collective MPI-I/O functions have been evaluated and sufficient performance has been achieved.
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Tsujita, Y. (2005). Efficient MPI-I/O Support in Data-Intensive Remote I/O Operations Using a Parallel Virtual File System. In: Zhang, W., Tong, W., Chen, Z., Glowinski, R. (eds) Current Trends in High Performance Computing and Its Applications. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-27912-1_13
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