Madeleine II: a portable and efficient communication library for high-performance cluster computing

Author

Aumage, Olivier ; Bougé, Luc ; Denis, Alexandre ; Méhaut, Jean-François ; Mercier, Guillaume ; Namyst, Raymond ; Prylli, LoYc

Author_Institution

LIP, ENS-Lyon, France

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

78

Lastpage

87

Abstract

This paper introduces Madeleine II, a new adaptive and portable multi-protocol implementation of the Madeleine communication library. Madeleine II has the ability to control multiple network interfaces (BIP, SISCI, VIA) and multiple network adapters (Ethernet, Myrinet, SCI) within the same application session. Moreover it includes advanced mechanisms to dynamically select the most appropriate transfer method for a given network protocol according to various parameters such as data size or responsiveness user requirements. We report on performance measurements obtained using BIP/Myrinet and SISCI/SCI and we present preliminary results about our Nexus/Madeleine II and MPICH/Madeleine II ports

Keywords

network interfaces; performance evaluation; protocols; system buses; workstation clusters; BIP; Ethernet; MPICH/Madeleine II ports; Madeleine II; Myrinet; Nexus/Madeleine II; SCI; SISCI; VIA; communication library; data size; high-performance cluster computing; multi-protocol implementation; multiple network adapters; multiple network interfaces; network protocol; performance measurements; responsiveness user requirements; Communication system control; Delay; Ethernet networks; Functional programming; Network interfaces; Portable computers; Protocols; Software libraries; Switches; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Cluster Computing, 2000. Proceedings. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Chemnitz

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0896-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLUSTR.2000.889004

Filename

889004