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The MPI (Message Passing Interface) is a standard communication library implemented on a large number of parallel computers. It is used for the development of portable parallel software. This paper presents, evaluates and compares the performance of the point-to-point and broadcast communication primitives of the MPI standard library on the Meiko CS-2 parallel machine. Furthermore, the paper proposes a benchmark model of MPI communications based on the size of messages exchanged and the number of involved processors. Finally, the MPI performance results on the CS-2 are compared with the performance of the Meiko Elan Widget library and the IBM SP2.
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Folino, G., Spezzano, G., Talia, D. (1998). Evaluating and modeling communication overhead of MPI primitives on the Meiko CS-2. In: Alexandrov, V., Dongarra, J. (eds) Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface. EuroPVM/MPI 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1497. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0056556
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