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Implementation of MPI on NEC's SX-4 multi-node architecture

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Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface (EuroPVM/MPI 1997)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNCS,volume 1332))

Abstract

MPICH is a portable implementation of MPI, the international standard for message-passing programming. This paper describes the port of MPICH to the NEC SX-4 parallel vector-supercomputer. By fine-tuning the implementation to the underlying architecture, the message-passing performance could be greatly enhanced. Some of the performance optimizations which led to NEC's current product-level MPI library are presented. Finally, there is an outlook on future activities which will include further optimizations and functional extensions.

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  1. Computations and Communications Research Laboratories, NEC Europe Ltd., Rathausallee 10, 53757, Sankt Augustin, Germany

    Rolf Hempel, Hubert Ritzdorf & Falk Zimmermann

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  1. Rolf Hempel
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Marian Bubak Jack Dongarra Jerzy Waśniewski

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Hempel, R., Ritzdorf, H., Zimmermann, F. (1997). Implementation of MPI on NEC's SX-4 multi-node architecture. In: Bubak, M., Dongarra, J., Waśniewski, J. (eds) Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface. EuroPVM/MPI 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1332. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-63697-8_85

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