A Grid-Enabled MPI: Message Passing in Heterogeneous Distributed Computing Systems

Abstract

Application development for high-performance distributed computing systems, or computational grids as they are sometimes called, requires grid-enabled tools that hide mundate aspects of the heterogeneous grid environment without compromising performance. As part of an investigation of these issues, they have developed MPICH-G, a grid-enabled implementation of the Message Passing Interface (MPI) that allows a user to run MPI programs across multiple computers at different sites using the same commands that would be used on a parallel computer. This library extends the Argonne MPICH implementation of MPI to use services provided by the globus grid toolkit. In this paper, they describe the MPICH-G implementation and present preliminary performance results.

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Computer scienceMessage passingDistributed computingGrid computingMessage Passing InterfaceMessage brokerGridParallel computingComputer network

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Year: 1998
Type: article
Pages: 46-46
Citations: 226
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                                    Ian Foster, 
                                
                                    Nicholas T. Karonis
                                
                            (1998). 
                            A Grid-Enabled MPI: Message Passing in Heterogeneous Distributed Computing Systems. 
                            
                            , 46-46.
                            https://doi.org/10.1109/sc.1998.10051

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DOI: 10.1109/sc.1998.10051