Modular MPI components and the composition of grid applications

Author

Cotronis, J.Y.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Informatics & Commun., Univ. of Athens, Panepistimiopolis, Greece

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

154

Lastpage

161

Abstract

The Ensemble methodology supports the design and implementation of message passing applications, particularly MPMD and those demanding irregular or partially regular process topologies. In Ensemble applications are built by composition of modular message passing components. We outline the Ensemble Software Architecture (ESA) and give an overview of the concepts and its supporting tools. We present extensions of ensemble components for composing Grid applications and outline their transformation to pure MPI executables and their execution on MPICH-G2. We demonstrate by building two simple applications, one SPMD and one MPMD where the former SPMD code is reused

Keywords

message passing; software architecture; Ensemble methodology; Ensemble software architecture; MPICH-G2; MPMD; SPMD; message passing; modular MPI components; partially regular process topologies; pure MPI executables; Application software; Buildings; Communication channels; Design methodology; Functional programming; Informatics; Message passing; Resource management; Software architecture; Topology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel, Distributed and Network-based Processing, 2002. Proceedings. 10th Euromicro Workshop on

Conference_Location

Canary Islands

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1444-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EMPDP.2002.994257

Filename

994257