MPICH-G2: A Grid-Enabled Implementation of the Message Passing Interface

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dc.creatorKaronis, N. T.
dc.creatorToonen, B.
dc.creatorFoster, I.
dc.date2002-06-25
dc.date2002-06-25
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T03:18:33Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T03:18:33Z
dc.descriptionApplication development for distributed computing "Grids" can benefit from tools that variously hide or enable application-level management of critical aspects of the heterogeneous environment. As part of an investigation of these issues, we have developed MPICH-G2, a Grid-enabled implementation of the Message Passing Interface (MPI) that allows a user to run MPI programs across multiple computers, at the same or different sites, using the same commands that would be used on a parallel computer. This library extends the Argonne MPICH implementation of MPI to use services provided by the Globus Toolkit for authentication, authorization, resource allocation, executable staging, and I/O, as well as for process creation, monitoring, and control. Various performance-critical operations, including startup and collective operations, are configured to exploit network topology information. The library also exploits MPI constructs for performance management; for example, the MPI communicator construct is used for application-level discovery of, and adaptation to, both network topology and network quality-of-service mechanisms. We describe the MPICH-G2 design and implementation, present performance results, and review application experiences, including record-setting distributed simulations.
dc.description20 pages, 8 figures
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0206040
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0206040
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/31159
dc.subjectDistributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
dc.subjectD.1.3
dc.titleMPICH-G2: A Grid-Enabled Implementation of the Message Passing Interface
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