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McMPI: a managed-code MPI library in pure C#

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EuroMPI '13: Proceedings of the 20th European MPI Users' Group Meeting

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2488551.2488572

Published: 15 September 2013 Publication History

Abstract

This paper presents McMPI, an entirely new MPI library written in C# using only safe managed-code, and performance results from low-level benchmarks demonstrating ping-pong latency and bandwidth comparable with MS-MPI and MPICH2.

McMPI enables all .Net languages to use MPI messaging without introducing a dependency on unsafe non-managed code, e.g. an existing MPI library. It also takes advantage of .Net thread support to improve intra-node latency.

This paper also discusses support for multiple threads in McMPI and proposes an extension to the MPI Standard that resolves current ambiguities relating to hosting multiple MPI processes in a single operating system process.

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White SKale L(2018)Optimizing point‐to‐point communication between adaptive MPI endpoints in shared memoryConcurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience10.1002/cpe.446732:3Online publication date: 12-Mar-2018
https://doi.org/10.1002/cpe.4467
Holmes DMohror KGrant RSkjellum ASchulz MBland WSquyres JDongarra JHolmes DCollis ALarsson Träff JSmith L(2016)MPI SessionsProceedings of the 23rd European MPI Users' Group Meeting10.1145/2966884.2966915(121-129)Online publication date: 25-Sep-2016
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2966884.2966915

Index Terms

McMPI: a managed-code MPI library in pure C#
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. General programming languages
      1. Language features
        Abstract data types
        Control structures
        Polymorphism

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EuroMPI '13: Proceedings of the 20th European MPI Users' Group Meeting

September 2013

289 pages

ISBN:9781450319034

DOI:10.1145/2488551

General Chair:
Jack Dongarra
University of Tennessee
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University Carlos III, Spain
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University Carlos III, Spain

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EuroMPI '13: 20th European MPI Users's Group Meeting

September 15 - 18, 2013

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White SKale L(2018)Optimizing point‐to‐point communication between adaptive MPI endpoints in shared memoryConcurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience10.1002/cpe.446732:3Online publication date: 12-Mar-2018
https://doi.org/10.1002/cpe.4467
Holmes DMohror KGrant RSkjellum ASchulz MBland WSquyres JDongarra JHolmes DCollis ALarsson Träff JSmith L(2016)MPI SessionsProceedings of the 23rd European MPI Users' Group Meeting10.1145/2966884.2966915(121-129)Online publication date: 25-Sep-2016
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2966884.2966915

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