Title :
Experiences made with the design and development of a message-passing kernel for a dual-processor-node parallel computer
Author :
Garnatz, Th ; Haack, U. ; Sander, M. ; Schröder-Preikschat, W.
Author_Institution :
RWCP Massively Parallel Systems, GMD Lab., Berlin, Germany
Abstract :
This paper presents the experiences made with the design and implementation of the Peace message-passing kernel. Peace is the object-oriented parallel operating system developed for the Manna parallel computer. Manna is a dual-processor-node distributed-memory machine using crossbar technology for node interconnection. Performance figures of the Peace kernel configurations are presented and their implications with respect to communication latency hiding are discussed
Keywords :
distributed memory systems; message passing; object-oriented programming; operating system kernels; parallel machines; software performance evaluation; Manna; Peace; communication latency hiding; crossbar technology; distributed-memory machine; dual-processor-node parallel computer; message-passing kernel; node interconnection; object-oriented parallel operating system; performance; Application software; Concurrent computing; Distributed computing; Hardware; Kernel; Laboratories; Object oriented programming; Operating systems; Program processors; System testing;
Conference_Titel :
System Sciences, 1996., Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth Hawaii International Conference on ,
Conference_Location :
Wailea, HI
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7324-9
DOI :
10.1109/HICSS.1996.495456
