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A Software Suite for High-Performance Communications on Clusters of SMPs

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A cluster, by opposition to a parallel computer, is a set of separate workstations interconnected by a high-speed network. The performances one can get on a cluster heavily depend on the performances of the lowest communication layers. In this paper, we address the special case where the cluster contains multi-processor machines. These shared-memory multi-processors desktop machines (SMPs) with 2 or 4 processors are now becoming very popular and present a high performance/price ratio. We present a software suite for achieving high-performance communications on a Myrinet-based cluster: BIP, BIP-SMP and MPI-BIP. The software suite supports single-processor (Intel PC and Digital Alpha) and multi-processor machines, as well as any combination of the two architectures.

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  1. Myricom Inc, France

    P. Geoffray

  2. RESAM laboratory, University Lyon 1, France

    C. Pham

  3. SUN Labs Grenoble, France

    B. Tourancheau

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Geoffray, P., Pham, C. & Tourancheau, B. A Software Suite for High-Performance Communications on Clusters of SMPs. Cluster Computing 5, 353–363 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1019756120212

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