LogGP quantified: the case for MPI

Author

Al-Tawil, Khalid ; Moritz, Csaba Andras

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Eng., King Fahd Univ. of Pet. & Miner., Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

fYear

1998

fDate

28-31 Jul 1998

Firstpage

366

Lastpage

367

Abstract

LogGP is a simple parallel machine model that reflects the important parameters required to measure the real performance of parallel computers (Alexandrov et al., 1995). The message passing interface (MPI) standard provides new opportunities for developing high performance parallel and distributed applications. We use LogGP as a conceptual framework for evaluating the performance of MPI communications on three platforms: Cray-research T3D, Convex Exemplar 1600, and a network of workstations (NOW). Each machine is viewed as a “black box” that supports the same MPI implementation

Keywords

Cray computers; local area networks; message passing; parallel machines; performance evaluation; Convex Exemplar 1600; Cray research T3D; LogGP; MPI; distributed applications; message passing interface; network of workstations; parallel machine model; performance evaluation; Application software; Bandwidth; Computer aided software engineering; Concurrent computing; Delay; Message passing; Parallel machines; Standards development; Upper bound; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

High Performance Distributed Computing, 1998. Proceedings. The Seventh International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Chicago, IL

ISSN

1082-8907

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8579-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HPDC.1998.710033

Filename

710033