MPI-FM: high performance MPI on workstation clusters
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing - Special issue on workstation clusters and network-based computing
The Design for a High-Performance MPI Implementation on the Myrinet Network
Proceedings of the 6th European PVM/MPI Users' Group Meeting on Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface
MPI in Wireless Sensor Networks
Proceedings of the 15th European PVM/MPI Users' Group Meeting on Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface
High-performance message-passing over generic Ethernet hardware with Open-MX
Parallel Computing
Ethernet as a lossless deadlock free system area network
ISPA'05 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications
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The Genoa Active Message MAchine (GAMMA) is a light-weight communication system based on the Active Ports paradigm, originally designed for efficient implementation over low-cost Fast Ethernet interconnects. A very efficient porting of MPICH atop GAMMA as been recently completed, providing unprecedented messaging performance over the cheapest cluster computing technology currently available. In this paper we describe the recently completed porting of GAMMA to the GNIC-II Gigabit Ethernet adapters by Packet Engines. A combination of less than 10 µs latency and more than 93 MByte/s throughput demonstrates the possibility for Gigabit Ethernet and GAMMA to yield messaging performance comparable to the ones from many lightweight protocols running on Myrinet. This result is of interest, given the envisaged drop in cost of Gigabit Ethernet due to the forthcoming transition from fiber optic to UTP cabling and ever increasing mass market production of such standard interconnect.