Protocols and Software for Exploiting Myrinet Clusters

  • Authors:
  • Patrick Geoffray;CongDuc Pham;Loïc Prylli;Bernard Tourancheau;Roland Westrelin

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • ICCS '01 Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Sciences-Part I
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

A cluster, by opposition to a parallel computer, is a set of separate workstations interconnected by a high-speed network. The performances one can get on a cluster heavily depend on the performances of the lowest communication layers. In this paper we present a software suite for achieving high-performance communications on a Myrinet-based cluster: BIP, BIP-SMP and MPI-BIP. The software suite supports single-processor (Intel PC and Digital Alpha) and multi-processor machines, as well as any combination of the two architectures. Additionally, the Web-CM software for cluster management that cover job submissions and node monitoring is presented as the high-level of the software suite.