Communication Bandwidth of Parallel Programming Models on Hybrid Architectures

  • Authors:
  • Rolf Rabenseifner

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • ISHPC '02 Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on High Performance Computing
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

Most HPC systems are clusters of shared memory nodes. Parallel programming must combine the distributed memory parallelization on the node inter-connect with the shared memory parallelization inside of each node. This paper introduces several programming models for hybrid systems. It focuses on programming methods that can achieve optimal inter-node communication bandwidth and on the hybrid MPI+OpenMP approach and its programming rules. The communication behavior is compared with the pure MPI programming paradigm and with RDMA and NUMA based programming models.