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MPI on BlueGene/L: Designing an Efficient General Purpose Messaging Solution for a Large Cellular System

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The BlueGene/L computer uses system-on-a-chip integration and a highly scalable 65,536-node cellular architecture to deliver 360 Tflops of peak computing power. Efficient operation of the machine requires a fast, scalable, and standards compliant MPI library. In this paper, we discuss our efforts to port the MPICH2 library to BlueGene/L.

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  1. IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, 10598-0218, USA

    George Almási, José G. Castaños, Manish Gupta, Xavier Martorell & José E. Moreira

  2. IBM Systems Group, Rochester, MN, 55901, USA

    Charles Archer

  3. Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, 60439, USA

    William D. Gropp & Brian Toonen

  4. Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 77840, USA

    Silvius Rus

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

    Jack Dongarra

  2. Information Science and Technologies Institute (ISTI), The Italian National Research Council (CNR), Area della Ricerca, Via Giuseppe Moruzzi, 1, I-56126, Pisa, Italy

    Domenico Laforenza

  3. Department of Computer Science, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy

    Salvatore Orlando

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Almási, G. et al. (2003). MPI on BlueGene/L: Designing an Efficient General Purpose Messaging Solution for a Large Cellular System. 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_49

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