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Performance Issues of Distributed MPI Applications in a German Gigabit Testbed

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Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface (EuroPVM/MPI 1999)

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The Gigabit Testbed West is a testbed for the planned upgrade of the German Scientic Network B-WiN. It is based on a 2.4 Gigabit/second ATM connection between the Research Centre Jülich and the GMD - National Research Center for Information Technology in Sankt Augustin. This contribution reports on those activities in the testbed that are related to metacomputing. It starts with a discussion of the IP connectivity of the supercomputers in the testbed. The achieved performance is compared with MetaMPI, an MPI library that is tuned for the use in metacomputing environments with high-speed networks. Applications using this library are briefly described.

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  1. Forschungszentrum Jülich, Zentralinstitut für Angewandte Mathematik, D-52425, Jülich, Germany

    T. Eickermann

  2. Institut für Algorithmen und Wissenschaftliches Rechnen, GMD - Forschungszentrum Informationstechnik, Schloß Birlinghoven, D-53754, Sankt Augustin, Germany

    H. Grund

  3. Pallas GmbH, Hermülheimer Str. 10, D-50321, Brühl, Germany

    J. Henrichs

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  1. OakRidge National Laboratory, University of Tennessee, 107, Ayres Hall, Knoxville, TN, 37996-1301, USA

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  2. Computer Science Department Computer Architecture and Operating Systems Group, Universitat Autònoma of Barcelona, E-08193, Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain

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Eickermann, T., Grund, H., Henrichs, J. (1999). Performance Issues of Distributed MPI Applications in a German Gigabit Testbed. In: Dongarra, J., Luque, E., Margalef, T. (eds) Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface. EuroPVM/MPI 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1697. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48158-3_1

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