A Multiprotocol Communication Support for the Global Address Space Programming Model on the IBM SP

Authors:
Jarek Nieplocha;Jialin Ju;Tjerk P. Straatsma
Affiliations:
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Venue:
Euro-Par '00 Proceedings from the 6th International Euro-Par Conference on Parallel Processing
Year:
2000

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Abstract

The paper describes an efficient communication support for the global address space programming model on the IBM SP, a commercial example of the SMP (symmetric multi-processor) clusters. Our approach integrates shared memory with active messages, threads and remote memory copy between nodes. The shared memory operations offer substantial performance improvement over LAPI, IBM one-sided communication library, within an SMP node. Based on the experiments with the SPLASH-2 LU benchmark and a molecular dynamics simulation, our multiprotocol support for the global address space is found to improve performance and scalability of applications. This approach could also be used in optimizing the MPI-2 one-sided communication on the SMP clusters.