The Design and Evaluation of MPI-Style Web Services

  • Authors:
  • Ian Cooper;Yan Huang

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Computer Science, Cardiff University, United Kingdom;School of Computer Science, Cardiff University, United Kingdom

  • Venue:
  • ICCS '08 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Computational Science, Part I
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

This paper describes how Message Passing Web Services (MPWS) can be used as a message passing tool to enable parallel processing between WS-based processes in a web services oriented computing environment. We describe the evaluation tests performed to assess the point-to-point communications performance of MPWS compared to mpiJava wrapping MPICH. Following these evaluations we conclude that: using web services to enable parallel processing is a practical solution in coarse grained parallel applications; and that due to inter message pipelining, the MPWS system can, under certain conditions, improve on the communication times of mpiJava.