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

Volume

1

fYear

1996

fDate

3-6 Jan 1996

Firstpage

131

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

System Sciences, 1996., Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth Hawaii International Conference on ,

Conference_Location

Wailea, HI

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7324-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HICSS.1996.495456

Filename

495456