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Implementation and Shared-Memory Evaluation of MPICH2 over the Nemesis Communication Subsystem

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This paper presents the implementation of MPICH2 over the Nemesis communication subsystem and the evaluation of its shared-memory performance. We describe design issues as well as some of the optimization techniques we employed. We conducted a performance evaluation over shared memory using microbenchmarks as well as application benchmarks. The evaluation shows that MPICH2 Nemesis has very low communication overhead, making it suitable for smaller-grained applications.

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  • Shared Memory
  • Message Passing Interface
  • Instruction Count
  • Communication Subsystem
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This work was supported by the Mathematical, Information, and Computational Sciences Division subprogram of the Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research, Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy, under Contract W-31-109-ENG-38, and by a grant of computing time from the Ohio Supercomputer Center.

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  1. Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory,  

    Darius Buntinas, Guillaume Mercier & William Gropp

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  1. Forschungszentrum Jülich, ZAM, 52425, Jülich, Germany

    Bernd Mohr

  2. NEC Europe Ltd., NEC Laboratories Europe, Rathausallee 10, D-53757, Sankt Augustin, Germany

    Jesper Larsson Träff

  3. Dolphin Interconnect Solutions ASA R&D Germany, Siebengebirgsblick 26, 53343, Wachtberg, Germany

    Joachim Worringen

  4. Computer Science Department, University of Tennessee, 37996-3450, Knoxville, TN, USA

    Jack Dongarra

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Buntinas, D., Mercier, G., Gropp, W. (2006). Implementation and Shared-Memory Evaluation of MPICH2 over the Nemesis Communication Subsystem. In: Mohr, B., Träff, J.L., Worringen, J., Dongarra, J. (eds) Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface. EuroPVM/MPI 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4192. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11846802_19

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