CellPilot: A Seamless Communication Solution for Hybrid Cell Clusters
N. Girard, William B. Gardner, J. Carter, Gary Gréwal · 2011
The Cell Pilot library provides a comprehensive inter process communication solution for parallel programming in Con clusters comprised of Cell BE and other computers. It extends the process/channel approach of the existing Pilot library to cover processes running on Cell PPEs and SPEs. The same simple API is used to read and write messages on channels defined between pairs of processes regardless of location, while hiding communication details from the user. Cell Pilot uses MPI for inter-node communication, and the Cell SDK within a Cell node.