F-MPJ: scalable Java message-passing communications on parallel systems

  • Authors:

  • Guillermo L. Taboada;Juan Touriño;Ramón Doallo

  • Affiliations:

  • Computer Architecture Group, Dept. of Electronics and Systems, University of A Coruña, A Coruña, Spain;Computer Architecture Group, Dept. of Electronics and Systems, University of A Coruña, A Coruña, Spain;Computer Architecture Group, Dept. of Electronics and Systems, University of A Coruña, A Coruña, Spain

  • Venue:
  • The Journal of Supercomputing
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

This paper presents F-MPJ (Fast MPJ), a scalable and efficient Message-Passing in Java (MPJ) communication middleware for parallel computing. The increasing interest in Java as the programming language of the multi-core era demands scalable performance on hybrid architectures (with both shared and distributed memory spaces). However, current Java communication middleware lacks efficient communication support. F-MPJ boosts this situation by: (1) providing efficient non-blocking communication, which allows communication overlapping and thus scalable performance; (2) taking advantage of shared memory systems and high-performance networks through the use of our high-performance Java sockets implementation (named JFS, Java Fast Sockets); (3) avoiding the use of communication buffers; and (4) optimizing MPJ collective primitives. Thus, F-MPJ significantly improves the scalability of current MPJ implementations. A performance evaluation on an InfiniBand multi-core cluster has shown that F-MPJ communication primitives outperform representative MPJ libraries up to 60 times. Furthermore, the use of F-MPJ in communication-intensive MPJ codes has increased their performance up to seven times.