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An Architecture for Using Multiple Communication Devices in a MPI Library

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High Performance Computing and Networking (HPCN-Europe 2000)

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Every year new intercommunication technologies emerge and the parallel computing libraries have to evolve to use these new technologies. Most of the existing libraries have the communication medium dependent code embedded in the core and rely on it for the management of the environment. This makes it difficult to adapt the libraries to those emerging technologies. A new architecture, implemented in the WMPI library, cleanly separates the communication device dependent code from the library core, making that adaptation much easier. Third party institutions (technology vendors and other research institutions) can thus easily adapt WMPI for any technology. Additionally, the architecture enables the concurrent use of any number of communication media by the WMPI library. The freedom is also given to the developer of the communication device dependent code to use or not dedicated threads for sending and/or receiving. This paper describes the main characteristics and rationale of that new architecture.

This work was partially supported by the Portuguese Ministry of Science and Technology through the R&D Unit 326/94 (CISUC) and the project PRAXIS XXI 2/2.1/TIT/1625/95 named ParQuantum.

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  1. Dept. Engenharia Informática/CISUC, Universidade de Coimbra — Polo II, 3030-397, Coimbra, Portugal

    Hernâni Pedroso & João Gabriel Silva

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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

    Marian Bubak

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

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Pedroso, H., Silva, J.G. (2000). An Architecture for Using Multiple Communication Devices in a MPI Library. 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_84

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