Heterogeneity Issues and Supports in MPI Implementations: An Overview
Yanhuang Jiang, Qiang-Li Zhao, Yutong Lu, Xuejun Yang · 2009
Diverse computers interconnected via mixed network equipments are commonly available parallel architecture now, and achieve good performance/price ratio. As an important parallel communication tool, MPI system is a natural choice to support heterogeneous computing platform. The paper classifies the definition of heterogeneity into three categories, and presents the issues of them in detail respectively. Then overviews the heterogeneous support in eight MPI implementations. Comparison and analysis results are given from several aspects at last.