An Efficient Implementation of MPI over VMMC for Myrinet
Ho‐Joong Kim, Seungryoul Maeng · 2001
Cluster systems employ high speed interconnection networks and use efficient communication layers to gain high performance and scalability. But the diversity in implementation mechanism among these communication layers causes lack of portability. A solution is to provide communication standard APIs such as MPI. This paper introduces MPI-VMMC: an MPI implementation on VMMC. Though the direct deposit transfer mechanism used in VMMC is not suitable for Send/Recv mechanism used in MPI, the proposed sub-layer laid between MPI and VMMC efficiently translates from one mechanism to the other. We also use the lazy pointer and selective zero-copy transfer technique to gain high performance. The peak performance of MPI-VMMC is 90.7Mbytes/sec, which is about 95% of the base communication layer\`s.