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IPPS
2005
IEEE
15 years 8 months ago
A Comparison of MPI and Process Networks
The Message Passing Interface (MPI) is a popular communication library that supports the SIMD model of parallel computing. Process networks (PN), where processes communicate throu...
Thomas M. Parks
IPPS
2006
IEEE
15 years 8 months ago
Making lockless synchronization fast: performance implications of memory reclamation
Achieving high performance for concurrent applications on modern multiprocessors remains challenging. Many programmers avoid locking to improve performance, while others replace l...
Thomas E. Hart, Paul E. McKenney, Angela Demke Bro...
HPDC
2003
IEEE
15 years 7 months ago
A Performance Study of Monitoring and Information Services for Distributed Systems
Monitoring and information services form a key component of a distributed system, or Grid. A quantitative study of such services can aid in understanding the performance limitatio...
Xuehai Zhang, Jeffrey L. Freschl, Jennifer M. Scho...
CCGRID
2008
IEEE
15 years 9 months ago
MPI Collectives on Modern Multicore Clusters: Performance Optimizations and Communication Characteristics
The advances in multicore technology and modern interconnects is rapidly accelerating the number of cores deployed in today’s commodity clusters. A majority of parallel applicat...
Amith R. Mamidala, Rahul Kumar, Debraj De, Dhabale...
ICS
1999
Tsinghua U.
15 years 6 months ago
Symmetry and performance in consistency protocols
A consistency protocol can be termed symmetric if all processors are treated identically when they access common resources. By contrast, asymmetric protocols usually assign a home...
Peter J. Keleher