Paper Info
Title
Evaluating NIC hardware requirements to achieve high message rate PGAS support on multi-core processors
Abstract
Partitioned global address space (PGAS) programming models have been identified as one of the few viable approaches for dealing with emerging many-core systems. These models tend to generate many small messages, which requires specific support from the network interface hardware to enable efficient execution. In the past, Cray included E-registers on the Cray T3E to support the SHMEM API; however, with the advent of multi-core processors, the balance of computation to communication capabilities has shifted toward computation. This paper explores the message rates that are achievable with multi-core processors and simplified PGAS support on a more conventional network interface. For message rate tests, we find that simple network interface hardware is more than sufficient. We also find that even typical data distributions, such as cyclic or block-cyclic, do not need specialized hardware support. Finally, we assess the impact of such support on the well known RandomAccess benchmark.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1145/1362622.1362671
Reno, NV, USA
Keywords
Field
DocType
specialized hardware support,high message rate pgas,specific support,conventional network interface,network interface hardware,nic hardware requirement,message rate test,simple network interface hardware,pgas support,cray t3e,message rate,multi-core processor,productivity,multicore processing,network interfaces,partitioned global address space,benchmark testing,electronics packaging,grid computing,bandwidth,programming,programming model,data mining,hardware,network interface,multi core processor,government
Grid computing,Data transmission,Programming paradigm,Computer science,Parallel computing,Computer hardware,Partitioned global address space,Multi-core processor,SHMEM,Benchmark (computing),Distributed computing,Network interface
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-59593-764-3
8
0.60
References 
Authors
20
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Keith D. Underwood184777.39
Levenhagen, Michael J.280.60
Brightwell, R.380.60