IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
A High Performance Message-Passing System for Network of Workstations
The Journal of Supercomputing - Special issue: high performance distributed computing
Compile/run-time support for threaded MPI execution on multiprogrammed shared memory machines
Proceedings of the seventh ACM SIGPLAN symposium on Principles and practice of parallel programming
Program transformation and runtime support for threaded MPI execution on shared-memory machines
ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS)
Optimizing threaded MPI execution on SMP clusters
ICS '01 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Supercomputing
Scalable multithreading in a low latency Myrinet cluster
VECPAR'02 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on High performance computing for computational science
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The TPVM (Threads-oriented PVM) system, is an experimental auxiliary subsystem for the PVM distributed system, which supports the use of lightweight processes or "threads" as the basic unit of parallelism and scheduling. TPVM provides a library interface which presents both a traditional, task based, explicit message passing model, as well as a data-driven scheduling model that enables straightforward specification of computation based on data dependencies. Our system design is still under development, but a prototype implementation has allowed us to perform a number of preliminary experiments. These have provided strong evidence that TPVM can offer improved performance, processor utilization, and load balance to several application categories. Through our experiments we have also determined that the current TPVM design is not very well suited to certain types of applications, most notably highly synchronous, SPMD-style algorithms.