Interfacing parallel jobs to process managers

Author

Toonen, Brian ; Ashton, David ; Lusk, Ewing ; Foster, Ian ; Gropp, William ; Gabriel, Edgar ; Butler, Ralph ; Karonis, Nicholas

Author_Institution

Argonne Nat. Lab., IL, USA

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

431

Lastpage

432

Abstract

A variety of projects worldwide are developing what we call "heterogeneous MPI". These MPI implementations are designed to operate on multiple computers, perhaps of different types, ranging in complexity from a set of desktop workstations to several supercomputers connected via a wide area network. These considerations led us to investigate the feasibility of defining a common API that could be used within MPI implementations to access process startup, initialization, monitoring, and control functions provided by an underlying process management system. If various MPI implementations coded to that API, one could then develop multiple "process management" modules that could be reused within different MPI implementations, thus allowing partitioning of effort between different development groups. In pursuit of this goal, we have designed such an API, which we call BNR. The major goals of the BNR interface are outlined

Keywords

application program interfaces; message passing; parallel databases; processor scheduling; BNR interface; MPI implementations; common API; control functions; desktop workstations; heterogeneous MPI; multiple computers; parallel job interfacing; process management system; process managers; process startup; supercomputers; Computer networks; Computerized monitoring; Databases; High performance computing; Laboratories; National security; Protocols; Supercomputers; Wide area networks; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

High Performance Distributed Computing, 2001. Proceedings. 10th IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

ISSN

1082-8907

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1296-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HPDC.2001.945212

Filename

945212