Heterogeneous MPI application interoperation and process management under PVMPI

Graham E. Fagg, Jack J. Dongarra, Al Geist

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Abstract

Presently, different vendors' MPI implementations cannot interoperate directly with each other. As a result, performance of distributed computing across different vendors' machines requires use of a single MPI implementation, such as MPICH. This solution may be sub-optimal since it cannot utilize the vendors' own optimized MPI implementations. PVMPI, a software package currently under development at the University of Tennessee, provides the needed interoperability between different vendors' optimized MPI implementations. As the name suggests P VMPI is a powerful combination of the proven and widely ported Parallel Virtual Machine (PVM) system and MPI. PVMPI is transparent to MPI applications thus allowing intercommunication via all the MPI point-to-point calls. Additionally, P VMPI allows flexible control over MPI applications by providing access to all the process control and resource control thnctions available in the PVM virtual machine.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationRecent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface - 4th European PVM/MPI Users Group Meeting, Proceedings
EditorsMarian Bubak, Jack Dongarra, Jerzy Wasniewśki
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages91-98
Number of pages8
ISBN (Print)3540636978, 9783540636977
DOIs
StatePublished - 1997
Event4th European Conference on Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface, PVM/MPI 1997 - Cracow, Poland
Duration: Nov 3 1997Nov 5 1997

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume1332
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference4th European Conference on Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface, PVM/MPI 1997
Country/TerritoryPoland
CityCracow
Period11/3/9711/5/97

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