Title :
Design and implementation of message passing library for PC cluster Maestro
Author :
Kulkasem, Pusit ; Yamagiwa, Shinichi ; Ito, Naoki ; Yonezawa, Naoki ; Wada, Koichi
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Inf. Sci., Burapha Univ., Thailand
Abstract :
The paper gives a detailed implementation of a message passing library called MMP. MMP is a user level library that has been designed and implemented on our Maestro PC (Personal Computer) cluster. By accessing a network interface from a user process directly and performing DMA by a dedicated processor on the network interface, MMP can realize a low latency and high bandwidth message transfer. The implemented MMP achieves a latency of 48 microseconds and a bandwidth of 13.2 Mbytes/sec between 2 nodes of our Maestro PC cluster
Keywords :
message passing; network interfaces; software libraries; workstation clusters; DMA; MMP; Maestro PC cluster; PC cluster Maestro; Personal Computer; dedicated processor; high bandwidth message transfer; message passing library; network interface; user level library; user process; Bandwidth; Concurrent computing; Delay; Electronic mail; Indium tin oxide; Message passing; Microcomputers; Network interfaces; Software libraries; Switches;
Conference_Titel :
Communications, Computers and Signal Processing, 1999 IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on
Conference_Location :
Victoria, BC
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5582-2
DOI :
10.1109/PACRIM.1999.799608
