The Generic Message Passing Framework

  • Authors:
  • Lie-Quan Lee;Andrew Lumsdaine

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • IPDPS '03 Proceedings of the 17th International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

This paper presents the design and implementation of the Generic Message Passing framework (GMP). The design of the GMP is guided by two goals: programmer productivity and run-time performance 驴 particularly for parallel systems having both shared and distributed memory (e.g., clusters of SMPs). To achieve these goals simultaneously, the GMP uses a generic programming paradigm, allowing it to integrate seamlessly with modern generic libraries such as the C++ Standard Library. In addition the GMP presents a single parallel programming model, namely message passing. The implementation of the GMP fully exploits the architectural characteristics of its execution target for maximum run-time performance. Performance results are presented that demonstrate the effectiveness of the Generic Message Passing framework.