Paper Info
Title
MPICH-G2: a Grid-enabled implementation of the Message Passing Interface
Abstract
Application development for distributed-computing "Grids" can benefit from tools that variously hide or enable application-level management of critical aspects of the heterogeneous environment. As part of an investigation of these issues, we have developed MPICH-G2, a Grid-enabled implementation of the Message Passing Interface (MPI) that allows a user to run MPI programs across multiple computers, at the same or 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 Toolkit for authentication, authorization, resource allocation, executable staging, and I/O, as well as for process creation, monitoring, and control. Various performance-critical operations, including startup and collective operations, are configured to exploit network topology information. The library also exploits MPI constructs for performance management; for example, the MPI communicator construct is used for application-level discovery of, and adaptation to, both network topology and network quality-of-service mechanisms. We describe the MPICH-G2 design and implementation, present performance results, and review application experiences, including record-setting distributed simulations.
Year
DOI
Venue
2002
10.1016/S0743-7315(03)00002-9
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing - Special issue on computational grids
Keywords
DocType
Volume
service provider,grid computing,parallel computer,mpi,cluster computing,resource allocation,performance management,message passing interface,application development,message passing,quality of service,distributed computing,network topology
Journal
63
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
5
0743-7315
261
PageRank 
References 
Authors
16.47
30
3
Search Limit
100261
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Nicholas T. Karonis11069155.00
Brian Toonen242530.93
Foster Ian3229382663.24