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With the growing importance of fast system area networks in the parallel community, it is becoming common for message passing programs to run in multi-programming environments. Competing sequential and parallel jobs can distort the global coordination of communicating processes. In this paper, we describe our implementation of MPI using implicit information for global co-scheduling. Our results show that MPI program performance is, indeed, sensitive to local scheduling variations. Further, the integration of implicit co-scheduling with the MPI runtime system achieves robust performance in a multi-programming environment, without compromising performance in dedicated use.
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Wong, F.C., Arpaci-Dusseau, A.C., Culler, D.E. (1999). Building MPI for Multi-Programming Systems Using Implicit Information. In: Dongarra, J., Luque, E., Margalef, T. (eds) Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface. EuroPVM/MPI 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1697. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48158-3_27
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