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MPI/MBCF is a high-performance MPI library targeting a cluster of workstations connected by a commodity network. It is implemented with the Memory-Based Communication Facilities (MBCF), which provides software mechanisms for users to access remote task’s memory space with off-the-shelf network hardware. MPI/MBCF uses Memory-Based FIFO for message buffering and Remote Write for communication without buffering from among the functions of MBCF. In this paper, we evaluate the performance of MPI/MBCF on a cluster of workstations with the NAS Parallel Benchmarks. We verify whether a message passing library implemented on the shared memory model achieves higher performance than that on the message passing model.
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Morimoto, K., Matsumoto, T., Hiraki, K. (1999). Performance Evaluation of MPI/MBCF with the NAS Parallel Benchmarks. 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_3
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