Title
Performance analysis of a hybrid MPI/OpenMP application on multi-core clusters
Abstract
The mixing of shared memory and message passing programming models within a single application has often been suggested as a method for improving scientific application performance on clusters of shared memory or multi-core systems. DL_POLY, a large scale molecular dynamics application programmed using message passing programming has been modified to add a layer of shared memory threading and the performance analysed on two multi-core clusters. At lower processor numbers, the extra overheads from shared memory threading in the hybrid code outweigh performance benefits gained over the pure MPI code. On larger core counts the hybrid model performs better than pure MPI, with reduced communication time decreasing the overall runtime.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1016/j.jocs.2010.05.001
Journal of Computational Science
Keywords
Field
DocType
Multi-core,Hybrid programming,Message passing,Shared memory
Cluster (physics),Shared memory,Programming paradigm,Computer science,Threading (manufacturing),Parallel computing,Distributed shared memory,Multi-core processor,Message passing,Hybrid programming
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
1
3
1877-7503
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
29
1.41
10
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Martin J. Chorley1855.65
David W. Walker21158129.14