Title
The Architecture and Performance of WMPI II
Abstract
WMPI II is the only commercial implementation of MPI 2.0 that runs on both Windows and Linux clusters. It evolved from the first ever Windows version of MPI, then a port of MPICH, but is now fully built from its own code base. It supports both 32 and 64 bit versions and mixed clusters of Windows and Linux nodes. This paper describes the main design decisions and the multithreaded, non-polling architecture of WMPI II. Experimental results show that, although WMPI II has figures comparable to MPICH and LAM for latency and bandwidth, most application benchmarks perform significantly better when running on top of WMPI II.
Year
DOI
Venue
2004
10.1007/978-3-540-30218-6_21
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Keywords
Field
DocType
linux cluster
MPICH,Architecture,Virtual machine,Computer science,Latency (engineering),Parallel computing,Polling,Bandwidth (signal processing),Message passing,Operating system,Distributed computing
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
3241
0302-9743
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
4
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Anders Lyhne Christensen144238.22
João Brito251.10
João Gabriel Silva361863.55