An approach for MPI based metacomputing

Author

Resch, Michael ; Gabriel, Edgar ; Geiger, Alfred

Author_Institution

High Performance Comput. Center, Stuttgart, Germany

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

333

Lastpage

334

Abstract

Coupling computer resources to work on a given problem has been a successful strategy for years. Due to the existence of high bandwidth WAN it has become possible to couple big machines to build clusters that outperform the most powerful existing single computers. The article discusses such a powerful cluster, a metacomputer. While for MPPs the message passing model was standardized already 4 years ago (1995), a standard for interoperable MPI has only been published recently. We briefly present an approach for MPI based metacomputing called PACX-MPI. We also describe other approaches, and give an overview of the technical concept

Keywords

message passing; open systems; parallel programming; workstation clusters; MPI based metacomputing; MPPs; Message Passing Interface; PACX-MPI; big machines; computer resources; high bandwidth WAN; interoperable MPI; message passing model; metacomputer; technical concept; Bandwidth; Computational modeling; Delay; Distributed computing; High performance computing; Message passing; Metacomputing; Protocols; Standards publication; Wide area networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

High Performance Distributed Computing, 1999. Proceedings. The Eighth International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Redondo Beach, CA

ISSN

1082-8907

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5681-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HPDC.1999.805314

Filename

805314