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DyRecT: Software Support for Adaptive Parallelism on NOWs

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Parallel and Distributed Processing (IPDPS 2000)

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In this paper, we describe DyRecT (Dynamic Reconfiguration Toolkit) a software library that allows programmers to develop adaptively parallel message-passing MPI programs for clusters of workstations. DyRecT provides a high-level API that can be used for writing adaptive parallel HPF-like programs while hiding most of the details of the dynamic reconfiguration from the programmer. In addition, DyRecT provides support for making a wider variety of applications adaptive by exposing to the programmer a low-level library that implements many of the typical tasks performed during reconfiguration. We present experimental results for the overhead of dynamic reconfiguration of several benchmark applications using DyRecT.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, George Mason University, USA

    Etienne Godard, Sanjeev Setia & Elizabeth White

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  1. Centre Universitaire d’Informatique, Université de Genève, 24, rue Général Dufour, CH-1211, Genève 4, Switzerland

    José Rolim

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Godard, E., Setia, S., White, E. (2000). DyRecT: Software Support for Adaptive Parallelism on NOWs. In: Rolim, J. (eds) Parallel and Distributed Processing. IPDPS 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1800. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45591-4_161

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