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MPI on NT: The current status and performance of the available environments

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

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This paper is a follow up to a previous paper that investigated the functionality and performance of the MPI environments available for NT. In this paper we aim to report on the current status and performance of these environments. We discuss further tests carried out on WinMPICH from the Engineering Research Center at Mississippi State University, WMPI from the Instituto Supererior de Engenharia de Coimbra, Portugal and FM-MPI from the Dept. of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In addition, we report on our initial experiences with PaTENT WMPI from Genias Software and MPI/PRO from MPI Software Technology, Inc.

In the first part of the paper we discuss our motivation and briefly discribe each of the environments investigated. In the second part of the paper we describe and then report on the results of a set of communication benchmarks. Finally, we summarise our findings and discuss the changes and progress that has been made since the original investigation was undertaken.

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Baker, M. (1998). MPI on NT: The current status and performance of the available environments. 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/BFb0056560

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