A comparison of MPI and process networks

Author

Parks, Thomas M.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Colgate Univ., Hamilton, NY, USA

fYear

2005

fDate

4-8 April 2005

Abstract

The Message Passing Interface (MPI) is a popular communication library that supports the SIMD model of parallel computing. Process networks (PN), where processes communicate through first-in-first-out channels, support the MIMD model of parallel computing. Java implementations of both MPI and PN are available. We show that the communication primitives available in MPI, such as send/receive, scatter/gather, and broadcast can be emulated in PN. We present benchmark results comparing the performance of MPIJava and to own PN library.

Keywords

Java; application program interfaces; message passing; parallel processing; software libraries; Java; MIMD model; MPI; Message Passing Interface; SIMD model; communication primitives; multiple input multiple data; parallel computing; process network; single-instruction multiple data; software library; Broadcasting; Computer science; Concurrent computing; Java; Message passing; Parallel processing; Scattering; Signal processing; Software libraries; Sonar;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, 2005. Proceedings. 19th IEEE International

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2312-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IPDPS.2005.6

Filename

1420070

Link To Document

https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=3021505