Title :
A performance comparison of DSM, PVM, and MPI
Author :
Werstein, Paul ; Pethick, Mark ; Huang, Zhiyi
Author_Institution :
Otago Univ., Dunedin, New Zealand
Abstract :
We compare the performance of the Treadmarks DSM system with two popular message passing systems (PVM and MPI). The comparison is done on 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 24, and 32 nodes. Applications are chosen to represent three classes of problems: loosely synchronous, embarrassingly parallel, and synchronous. The results show DSM has similar performance to message passing for the embarrassingly parallel class. However the performance of DSM is lower than PVM and MPI for the synchronous and loosely synchronous classes of problems. An analysis of the reasons is presented.
Keywords :
application program interfaces; distributed shared memory systems; message passing; parallel programming; software performance evaluation; virtual machines; MPI; Message Passing Interface; PVM; Parallel Virtual Machine; Treadmarks DSM system; distributed computing; distributed shared memory; message passing systems; synchronous class problem; Computer networks; Concurrent computing; Distributed computing; Libraries; Message passing; Microcomputers; Multiprocessing systems; Parallel processing; Programming profession; Testing;
Conference_Titel :
Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications and Technologies, 2003. PDCAT'2003. Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7840-7
DOI :
10.1109/PDCAT.2003.1236348
