PVM: Parallel virtual machine: a users' guide and tutorial for networked parallel computing
PVM: Parallel virtual machine: a users' guide and tutorial for networked parallel computing
Proceedings of the 4th European PVM/MPI Users' Group Meeting on Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface
Pin-down Cache: A Virtual Memory Management Technique for Zero-copy Communication
IPPS '98 Proceedings of the 12th. International Parallel Processing Symposium on International Parallel Processing Symposium
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This paper describes the design and implementation of an interface to allow a simple integration of different (high speed) network interconnects for a message passing environment. In particular, a common SAN layer has been developed and tested with an improved PVM version. The latter has been extended to provide a pluggable interface for low level SAN layer. In this context GM and PM for Myrinet and SISCI for Scalable Coherent Interface (SCI) have been implemented. With this pluggable interface an approach such as the channel device for MPICH has been made to easily integrate existing and new networking devices. Multi Protocols which handle several interconnects are supported as well. This allows for harnessing heterogeneous clusters with different high speed interconnects using the fastest available communication device when possible. The given results show PVM's capability of achieving low latency, high bandwidth using appropriate devices.