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SKaMPI: A detailed, accurate MPI benchmark

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Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface (EuroPVM/MPI 1998)

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SKaMPI is a benchmark for MPI implementations. Its purpose is the detailed analysis of the runtime of individual MPI operations and comparison of these for different implementations of MPI. SKaMPI can be configured and tuned in many ways: operations, measurement precision, communication modes, packet sizes, number of processors used etc. The technically most interesting feature of SKaMPI are measurement mechanisms which combine accuracy, efficiency and robustness. Postprocessors support graphical presentation and comparisons of different sets of results which are collected in a public web-site. We describe the SKaMPI design and implementation and illustrate its main aspects with actual measurements.

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  1. University of Karlsruhe, D-76128, Karlsruhe

    Ralf Reussner, Lutz Prechelt & Matthias Müller

  2. Max-Planck Institute for Computer Science, D-66123, Saarbrücken

    Peter Sanders

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Reussner, R., Sanders, P., Prechelt, L., Müller, M. (1998). SKaMPI: A detailed, accurate MPI benchmark. In: Alexandrov, V., Dongarra, J. (eds) Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface. EuroPVM/MPI 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1497. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0056559

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