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EPOS and Myrinet: Effective Communication Support for Parallel Applications Running on Clusters of Commodity Workstation

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This paper presents the EPOS approach to deliver parallel applications a high performance communication system. EPOS is not an operating system, but a collection of components that can be arranged together to yield a variety of run-time systems, including complete operating systems. This paper focuses on the communication subsystem of Epos, which is comprised by the network adapter and communicator scenario-independent system abstractions. Like other Epos abstractions, they are adapted to specific execution scenarios by means of scenario adapters and are exported to application programmers via inflated interfaces. The paper also covers the implementation of the network adapter system abstraction for the Myrinet high-speed network. This implementation is based on a carefully designed communication pipeline and achieved unprecedented performance

This research has been partially supported by the Federal University of Santa Catarina, by CAPES Foundation grant no. BEX 1083/96-1 and by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft grant no. SCHR 603/1-1.

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  1. GMD FIRST, Kekulésraße 7, D-12489, Berlin, Germany

    Antônio Augusto Fröhlich & Gilles Pokam Tientcheu

  2. University of Magdeburg, Universitätsplatz 2, D-39106, Magdeburg, Germany

    Wolfgang Schröder-Preikschat

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  1. Institute of Computer Science and Academic Computer Center CYFRONET, University of Mining and Metallurgy (AGH), al. Mickiewicza 30, 30-059, Cracow, Poland

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  2. Faculteit der Natuurwetenschappen, Wiskunde en Informatica, Universiteit van Amsterdam, 1098 SJ, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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Fröhlich, A.A., Tientcheu, G.P., Schröder-Preikschat, W. (2000). EPOS and Myrinet: Effective Communication Support for Parallel Applications Running on Clusters of Commodity Workstation. In: Bubak, M., Afsarmanesh, H., Hertzberger, B., Williams, R. (eds) High Performance Computing and Networking. HPCN-Europe 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1823. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45492-6_41

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