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MiMPI: A Multithread-Safe Implementation of MPI

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

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In this paper, we present a new thread-safe implementation of MPI, called MiMPI, that allows efficient development of thread-safe parallel programs using the message-passing standard MPI. MiMPI uses multithread operations to increase the performance of collective communications. The paper describes the main design goals of MiMPI and the current implementation. Finally we present some performance results, obtained on an IBM SP2, comparing the performance with others MPI implementations.

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  1. Facultad de Informática, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), Campus de Montegancedo, Boadilla del Monte, 28660, Madrid, Spain

    F. García, A. Calderón & J. Carretero

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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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García, F., Calderón, A., Carretero, J. (1999). MiMPI: A Multithread-Safe Implementation of MPI. 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_26

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