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The second version of the MPI-2 standard introduced new functionality to the Message Passing Interface. The ability of adding new processes to an MPI application at runtime was one of the main new extensions to the existing functionality. This paper presents the first implementation of the Process Creation and Management chapter of the standard for Win32 environments. The implementation of this functionality in generic NT clusters presents challenging problems due to the distributed nature and the considerable difference between each cluster. A description of the problems faced while implementing this new functionality as well as the solutions implemented in the WMPI library are presented this paper.
This Work was partially supported by the Portuguese Ministry of Science and Technology through the R&D Unit 326/94 (CISUC) and the project PRAXIS XXI 2/2.1/TIT/1625/95 named ParQuantum
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Pedroso, H., Silva, J.G. (2000). MPI-2 Process Creation & Management Implementation for NT Clusters. In: Dongarra, J., Kacsuk, P., Podhorszki, N. (eds) Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface. EuroPVM/MPI 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1908. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45255-9_27
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